David Kipping

David Mathew Kipping, born late 1983 or 1984, is an astronomer, assistant professor at Columbia University. He specializes in the research of exoplanets and exomoons and directs the laboratory Cool Worlds part of the department astronomy of the Columbia University.

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The Wow signal is SETI's founding myth. Most have dismissed it, but for 35 years, until his death last year, one man never stopped searching. Bob Gray's final research, "Could the "Wow" signal have originated from a stochastic repeating beacon?" was published in June with astronomer David Kipping.