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title: "3 Alpha Quotes By Debra Fischer"
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> [Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/because-alpha-centauri-is-so-close-it-is-our-first-stop-outside-our/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b49/debra-fischer-19620_alpha_because-alpha-centauri-is-so-close-it-is_779189.jpg)

> [Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/further-ahead-i-d-like-to-see-tiny-spacebots-smaller-than-your-cell/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d9/debra-fischer-19620_ahead_further-ahead-i-d-like-to-see-tiny-space_1456531.jpg)

> [The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/the-universe-has-told-us-the-most-common-types-of-planets-are-small/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/debra-fischer-19620_alpha_the-universe-has-told-us-the-most-common_1607528.jpg)

## Other authors on Alpha

## More by Debra Fischer

> [The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/the-first-exoplanet-to-be-found-around-a-sun-like-star-was-discovered/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/naturally-we-think-that-finding-another-earth-like-planet-is/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/kepler-s-blown-the-lid-off-everything-we-know-about-extra-solar/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/our-field-is-very-focused-on-finding-earth-2-0-and-anything-we-can-do/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/it-now-seems-logical-that-all-the-stars-like-our-own-sun-must-have/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/in-1999-my-team-discovered-that-the-star-upsilon-andromedae-was/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky planets around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/because-alpha-centauri-is-so-close-it-is-our-first-stop-outside-our/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Diamond planets truly are the most precious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/diamond-planets-truly-are-the-most-precious/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/as-our-sensitivity-improves-we-are-finally-seeing-planets-with-longer/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/science-requires-speculation-creativity-and-wild-ideas/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/there-s-no-doubt-that-the-search-for-planets-is-motivated-by-the/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/further-ahead-i-d-like-to-see-tiny-spacebots-smaller-than-your-cell/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/there-may-be-hundreds-of-small-seed-planets-or-planetesimals-which/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/the-gas-giant-planets-in-our-solar-system-all-have-large-moons/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

> [The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fischer/the-universe-has-told-us-the-most-common-types-of-planets-are-small/)

[Debra Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fischer/)

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