Able Quote by Seth Shostak

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world…

— Seth Shostak

Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary…

— Debra Fischer

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three…

— Seth Shostak

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

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

— Edmond Halley

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

— Debra Fischer

One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing…

— Carrie Nugent

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

— Debra Fischer

We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then, every potentially…

— Carrie Nugent

We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.

— Heidi Hammel