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'''Sara Seager''' (born 21 July 1971) is a [[Canadian-American]] [[astronomer]] and [[planetary science|planetary scientist]].<ref name="NYT-20161207">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Chris |title='The World Sees Me as the One Who Will Find Another Earth' - The star-crossed life of Sara Seager, an astrophysicist obsessed with discovering distant planets. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/magazine/the-world-sees-me-as-the-one-who-will-find-another-earth.html |date=7 December 2016 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=8 December 2016 }}</ref> She is a professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and is known for her work on [[extrasolar planets]] and their atmospheres. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics,<ref>{{cite book |last=Seager |first=Sara |title=Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes |isbn=9781400835300 |date=2010 |publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Seager |first=Sara |title=Exoplanets |isbn=978-0-8165-2945-2 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |date=2010}}</ref> and has been recognized for her research by ''[[Popular Science]]'',<ref name="PopSci10">{{cite web |url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-09/fifth-annual-brilliant-10?page=0%2C8 |title=The Fifth Annual Brilliant 10 |publisher=Popular Science |date=13 September 2006}}</ref> ''[[Discover Magazine]]'',<ref name="Discover20">{{cite news |url=http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/20-best-brains-under-40 |title=20 Best Brains Under 40 |publisher=Discover Magazine |date=20 November 2008}}</ref> ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'',<ref name="Nature10">{{cite news |url=http://www.nature.com/news/365-days-nature-s-10-1.9678 |title=Sara Seager: Planet seeker |date=21 December 2011 |publisher=Nature |last=Hand |first=Eric}}</ref> and ''[[TIME Magazine]]''.<ref name="TIME25">{{cite news |url=http://www.amesteam.arc.nasa.gov/NewsArticles/TIME_Space_Allamandola_25MostInfluentialPeopleinSpace.pdf |title=The 25 Most Influential People in Space |last1=Bjerklie |first1=David |date=2012 |publisher=TIME Magazine |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515121347/http://www.amesteam.arc.nasa.gov/NewsArticles/TIME_Space_Allamandola_25MostInfluentialPeopleinSpace.pdf |archivedate=15 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Seager was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on [[exoplanet]] atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe [[planetary transit]]s.<ref name="MacArthur">{{cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/903/ |title=MacArthur Fellows: Meet the Class of 2013: Sara Seager |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |date=24 September 2013 |accessdate=25 September 2013}}</ref>