The Interstellar Tourist’s Guide to Exoplanets by SciFri published on 2015-03-06T22:41:01Z More at http://scifri.me/wb32ux With more than a thousand exoplanets now in our sights, PRI’s The Takeaway asks: “What would it be like to visit them?” Host John Hockenberry joins Ira to share some of the educated guesses that astronomers Sarah Ballard and Natalie Batalha have made about what it might be like to vacation on Kepler-438b or KOI 314.02 Plus, MIT exoplanet hunter Sara Seager weighs in on the question at the top of every interplanetary tourist’s mind: Is there life out there? In a new review article in Science Advances, Seager explores how tell-tale atmospheric gases could reveal life on exoplanets many light years away. Genre Science