Quotes About Exoplanet

From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you're standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars. Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist.

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.

in 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.

Hubble uniquely has been able to look in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a nearby star and figure out what's in that atmosphere.

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