Heavy Quote by Debra Fischer

Whether a star has planetary companions or not is a condition of its birth. Those with a larger initial allotment of metals have an…

— Debra Fischer

Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.

— Debra Fischer

“Those stars with more than about ten times the mass of the Sun achieve sufficient pressure and temperature in their cores to manufacture dozens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It can be said that we are all “star dust,” the product of heavy element generation within previous generations of stars.”

— Dale A. Ostlie

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else…

— David Deutsch

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

“People used to think gold was worth fightin’ over, and that shit gets made by every supernova, which means pretty much every planet around…

— James S.A. Corey

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of…

— William Huggins

Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals of our…

— Seth Shostak

Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.

— Jamais Cascio

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

— Garik Israelian

Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it's all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our…

— Rob Halford