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What do we actually know about the possibility of life on other worlds? Join us on a journey through fact and fiction about alien life with Dr. Jay Dunn of Georgia State University.
About Dr. Jay Dunn
Dr. Dunn is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics on the Dunwoody campus of Georgia State University – Perimeter College. He has a 15+ year track record of working with undergraduate students as a research mentor. He and his team focus their research on the study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), which are super-massive black holes that are actively accreting material. They primarily analyze spectra obtained from either the Hubble Space Telescope on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and focus their attention on outflowing material in the vicinity of the black hole in the nucleus of other galaxies.
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