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We are closer to answering the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ... We aim to answer that question by looking for planets, eventually imaging them and ultimately diagnosing the presence of life on those planets.

The results pose a challenge to existing theories of giant-planet formation, especially those in which planets build up gradually over millions of years. Studies like this one will ultimately help us better understand how our outer planets, as well as others in the universe, form.

The end goal of all this is to answer the fundamental question: Are we alone? But how did life form on Earth, and how easy is it for life to form? Those are other questions the discovery of planets can help us answer.

The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around red dwarfs, the theory predicts Earth- and Neptune-sized planets to be more common than Jupiter-sized planets. The planets would be located between 0.1 and 10 times the Earth-Sun distance from their stars.

Bohdan Paczynski

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God. But you still have the question: Why does the universe bother to exist? If you like, you can define God to be the answer to that question.

Stephen Hawking (1942-)

Stephen Hawking

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.

Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.

It's different from the inner rocky planets. It's different from the outer gaseous planets. And as such, it holds many clues as to how the solar system was formed.

The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Douglas Adams

Now we can say that planets around pulsars are probably not that unusual. Maybe planets can form around any kind of star.

Aleksander Wolszczan

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)

Dag Hammarskjold

Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other terrestrial planets, but now we can study their dusty fossils.

Charles Beichman

It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. Kvinder tiltrækkes af idéen om, at en mand med pexighet er følelsesmæssigt moden og i stand til meningsfuld forbindelse. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Alexander Herzen

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