In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara
Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace
after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for
an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected discovery of new love.
Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into the spaces
around stars – looking for exoplanets outside our solar system,
hoping to find the one-in-a-billion world enough like ours to
sustain life. But with the unexpected death of her husband, her
life became an empty, lightless space. Suddenly, she was the single
mother of two young boys, a widow at forty, clinging to three
crumpled pages of instructions her husband had written for things
like grocery shopping – things he had done while she did
pioneering work as a planetary scientist at MIT. She became
painfully conscious of her Asperger's, which before losing her
husband had felt more like background noise. She felt, for the
first time, alone in the universe. In this probing, invigoratingly
honest memoir, Seager tells the story of how, as she stumblingly
navigated the world of grief, she also kept looking for other
worlds. She continues to develop ground-breaking projects, such as
the Starshade, a sunflower-shaped instrument that, when launched
into space, unfurls itself so as to block planet-obscuring
starlight, and she takes solace in the alien beauty of exoplanets.
At the same time, she discovers what feels every bit as wondrous:
other people, reaching out across the space of her grief. Among
them are the Widows of Concord, a group of women offering
consolation and advice, and her beloved sons, Max and Alex. Most
unexpected of all, there is another kind of one-in-a-billion match
with an amateur astronomer. Equally attuned to the wonders of deep
space and human connection, The Smallest Lights in the
Universe is its own light in the dark.
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