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In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found.…

— Debra Fischer

“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be…

— William Herschel

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the…

— Debra Fischer

A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not have planets.…

— Debra Fischer

“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in…

— Urbain Le Verrier

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.

— Alan Stern

One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same…

— William Huggins

Always look up! Every time I step out-side, that's the first thing I do. Ask your-self, "what star is that?", grab a star chart…

— Will Young

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