FastSaying
What's remarkable here is this process of planet formation, which we associate with the birth of stars, seems to also be able to occur at the end of the stellar lifetime, sort of a renaissance of the system, in some sense.
Deepto Chakrabarty
Birth
Remarkable
Related Quotes
Bruno Rossi was a giant at MIT, and as an MIT professor, I am humbled to receive an award named in his honor.
— Deepto Chakrabarty
Award
Giant
Humbled
This disk looks remarkably like those also seen around ordinary young stars in which planets are known to form.
— Deepto Chakrabarty
Disk
Form
Known
Suppose you form a neutron star that is close to the upper limit. If enough stuff falls back, it'll push the star over this limit and a black hole will form.
— Deepto Chakrabarty
It's like throwing a baseball straight up into the air. Unless you're throwing it really, really fast, it's eventually going to fall back down on you.
— Deepto Chakrabarty
Baseball
We're amazed that the planet-formation process seems to be so universal.
— Deepto Chakrabarty