Garik Israelian

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Garik Israelian is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival.

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Notable works: The metal-rich universe

About Garik Israelian

Garik Israelian is an Armenian-Spanish astrophysicist and co-founder of the Starmus Festival. In 1999, Israelian and colleagues presented the first observational evidence that supernova explosions were responsible for the formation of stellar-mass black holes.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Garik Israelian

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy…

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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

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Brian

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If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization…

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Astronomy

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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

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Alone

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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

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Astronomy

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It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

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Fun

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When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the…

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Abundance

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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that…

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