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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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Diamond planets truly are the most precious.

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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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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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Within the scientific community, there is healthy skepticism. And the question is, 'How do you ever get to a meaningful null result? How long and how hard do SETI scientists have to look for extraterrestrial intelligence and find nothing before they say, 'There is nothing. We are alone.'

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

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

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Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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