Abundance Quote by Garik Israelian

We now know that stars which are abundant in heavy metals are five times more likely to harbor orbiting planets than are stars deficient…

— Debra Fischer

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

— 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

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

— Debra Fischer

Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Actually, under stellar conditions matter is generally so highly ionized that, as we shall see in greater detail in chapter vii, the uncertainty in…

— Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

“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

“Using the standard model of elementary particles, we know how to follow the course of nuclear reactions in the standard "big bang" theory of…

— Steven Weinberg

“The stars’ positions were randomly generated, a fact that drove Pluto crazy.”

— Neal Stephenson

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

We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only…

— Alan Stern