Best quotes by Debra Fischer on Stars

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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.
    - Debra Fischer
  • When stars form a planet, they come in a bunch.
    - Debra Fischer
  • 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.
    - Debra Fischer
  • It can be very hard to know the history of a particular star, but once in a while, we get lucky and find stars with chemical compositions that likely came from in-falling planets.
    - Debra Fischer
  • Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.
    - Debra Fischer
  • A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not have planets. We've gone from there to here - where most stars have planets.
    - Debra Fischer