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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.
Jill Tarter
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Jill Tarter
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 16
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
New York City
New York
Jill Cornell Tarter
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