Alan Boss Quotations

I think there's a really good chance that this is an historic photo,

It may very well be that solar systems like our own are probably not rare in the galaxy. They may actually be a very common case.

There are a whole bunch of things people want to use the 'p-word' for, so we have to be careful.

It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've found so far.

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

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.

Now we have our first genuine detection of light from a planet around a solar-like star,

This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,