Jason Hyrum Steffen
Author of
To Explore Strange New Worlds: How the Kepler’s Mission’s Quest to Find Another Earth Revolutionized Our View of Our Own (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Dr. Steffen is an associate professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the properties of distant exoplanets and planetary systems, and has experience in particle astrophysics, cosmology, and gravitation. He was a long-time member of the science team for NASA’s Kepler mission where he co-chaired one of the scientific working groups. Dr. Steffen is also known for his work on airplane passenger boarding.
Book BY Jason
To Explore Strange New Worlds: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest to Find Another Earth Revolutionized Our View of Our Own is a look into the wacky, weird, and wonderful planetary systems that exist in the Milky Way, many of which defy explanation by the prevailing models of how, when, and where planets and planetary systems form.