Astrophysicist Anja C. Andersen revisits the discoveries that made her change her mind about how stardust formed and when the first planets could have appeared. Interviewed on stage by editor Mette Holbæk, she discusses the open questions that remain: how early the universe could have formed planets, whether the first planets were built from different materials than Earth, and why her meteorite evidence still doesn't tell the same story as the telescope observations.
Andersen is a professor of astrophysics and of public understanding of science at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and an award-winning science communicator. The evening is part of the series "Verden forsøgt forklaret" (Trying to Explain the World), and the conversation is recorded and released as a podcast the following week.
