Hands Quote by Andrew Gould

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter,…

— Geoffrey Marcy

People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any…

— Frank Drake

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task…

— Seth Shostak

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search…

— Yuri Milner

We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then, every potentially…

— Carrie Nugent

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and…

— Peter Diamandis

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit…

— Heidi Hammel

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

— Debra Fischer

There must be enormous numbers of planets around the stars in the many galaxies in our observable universe. We may be sure that wonderful…

— Jim Peebles