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Jill Tarter is an astronomer known for her contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) field. She has been the director of the SETI Project at the SETI Institute since 1978, leading several significant scientific projects during her tenure.

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“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

“Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.”

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Author:Jill Tarter

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Born: January 16, 1944
Known for: Astronomer
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