Debra Fischer Quotes

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One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the planetary systems we were detecting.

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As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

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

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The building blocks of life are readily available throughout the universe.

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Prebiotic chemistry on other worlds is going to be common. Plenty of small rocky planets will have similar chemistry. It’s almost a given.

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Generally speaking, exoplanets can be any size, and they are found in a wide range of orbits. Some have massive gas atmospheres; others are smaller with an icy or rocky composition.

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The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that are most likely to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A and B.

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Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There’s almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.

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The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.

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I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon. Outside the gravitational field of Earth, we could launch robotic spacecraft to other destinations in our solar system.

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Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

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55 Cancri is extraordinarily rich in heavy elements and extraordinarily efficient at making planets – much more so than our sun – and those elements are the very ones you need to make planets that aren’t just gas giants.

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Further ahead, I’d like to see tiny spacebots – smaller than your cell phone – travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

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

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Computers can’t find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.

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

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

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The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

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

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Whether a star has planetary companions or not is a condition of its birth. Those with a larger initial allotment of metals have an advantage over those without.

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