Recently, TIME Magazine featured astrobiologist Nader Haghighipour an online interview at TIME Video. Haghighipour, is an associate astronomer at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. In the video, he talks about life as an astronomer at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the dedication it takes to hunt for habitable, extrasolar worlds.

Identifying extrasolar planets at Keck is not a simple case of looking through the lens and spotting distant worlds. The process involves a large crew of people who are based at both the Keck Observatory on top of Mauna Kea and Keck Headquarters in Waimea, Hawaii. Click here to view the interview with Nader Haghighipour at TIME Magazine.

Nader Haghighipour specializes in celestial mechanics and planetary dynamics, and is a member of the NAI team at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Haghighipour is also an investigator for the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology project, From Planetesimals to Terrestrial Planets: Habitable Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems.