Charles Lada Quotes

There are theories that can form binary stars and theories that can form single stars, but there none that explain why you form more singles than binaries. - Charles Lada

The population of the galaxy is really dominated by these very faint small stars. - Charles Lada

Red dwarfs can live maybe a trillion years or so. Since the beginning of the universe, the red dwarfs that have formed, none of them have died. - Charles Lada

It depends on how you count. If you have 80 billion of what we call primaries, and you have 25 percent in multiple stars, then about 20 billion red dwarfs are in these binary systems, but another 60 billion are single. It's not often appreciated how numerous they are, but they are the most numerous of all stars. - Charles Lada

If the [large clouds] have some initial turbulent motions, then as they collapse, they will tend to split up. - Charles Lada

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