In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Rochester's Alice Quillen discusses the process used to detect and describe objects orbiting distant stars. Quillen is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rochester, where her research focuses on the dynamics of gas and stars in galaxies, the astrophysics of active galactic nuclei, and the dynamics of planetesimals in young planetary systems. Find out more about her here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.