Onward California: An Incredibly Hostile Universe

Published: April 29, 2013, 9 p.m.

b'Most of the universe is incredibly hostile, it\'s a vacuum, it\'s freezing-cold space or burning hot near a star. The first habitable planet found outside our solar system is in a habitable-zone orbit; it\'s a place of refuge from the unbelievable harshness of the universe. Steve Vogt, a UC Santa Cruz professor of astronomy and astrophysics, takes you into the Lick Observatory, where he has devoted years of research to find earth-like planets Series: "Onward California" [Science] [Show ID: 24476]'