Tag: interstellar
![An artist’s illustration of Kepler-452b.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/452b_artistconcept_beautyshot-1-1.jpg)
Exoplanets: Sci-Fi vs. Fact
Header Image: An artist’s illustration of Kepler-452b. Image Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Editor’s Note: Updated in May 2023. I was an undergraduate physics major at Cornell University, with my eye on a career in astronomy, when I saw the original Star Wars movie following its release in 1977. A rather famous astronomer and science popularizer […]