Around Quote by Debra Fischer

When stars form a planet, they come in a bunch.

— Debra Fischer

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such…

— Alan Stern

It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

— Debra Fischer

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so…

— Jill Tarter

“Since 1995, astronomers have found nearly two thousand confirmed planets around other stars. Some of these planets are similar to Earth in size and…

— Bill Nye

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

You know a very small seed can grow into a very big tree

— Kyle MacDonald

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least…

— Seth Shostak

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Garik Israelian

When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely…

— John M. Grunsfeld

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label…

— Arthur C. Clarke