Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer and the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. Read full biography of Jill Tarter →
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago.... →
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.
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot... →
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos... →
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... →
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego... →
Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal... →
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most... →
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because... →
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals... →
Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer and the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute.