About Quote by Garik Israelian

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

— 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

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

— 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

There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.

— 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

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark…

— Alan Stern

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

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

— Gary Busey

Planets are the big bullies of the planetary system that are, that basically ignore everybody else around them. And everybody else has to deal…

— Mike Brown

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