Quotes About Astronomy

You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

Hi Cosmos, How is your Milky Way? I miss you.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.

and inside this universe spin countless galaxies

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

As soon as the idea of the Big Bang was proposed in the 1920s, astronomers set about trying to work out when the bang happened. Initial estimates were, not surprisingly, wildly inaccurate, but by the 1980s it was known that the universe was 15 billion years old, give or take 5 billion years.

Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.

If I go and buy a coffee, and somebody asks me what I do, I'll say, 'I find asteroids.' And the first thing they always do is make a Bruce Willis joke, or they are going to bring up Armageddon.

It can be very hard to know the history of a particular star, but once in a while, we get lucky and find stars with chemical compositions that likely came from in-falling planets.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up at the sky, because everything we're made of, even the haemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth

Those who had spent a whole night, or sometimes three whole nights, cramped and cold, with a bursting bladder, while they guided a telescope to keep the pinpoint of a faint star in the cross-hair of an eyepiece, knew the advantages of a fast telescope.

The moon set. The sun rose.

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Scorpio, setting . . . Sagittarius, Capricornus; ah, there, here they were, after all, in their right places, their configurations all at once right, recognised, their pure geometry scintillating, flawless. And to-night as five thousand years ago they would rise and set: Capricorn, Aquarius, with, beneath, lonely Fomalhaut; Pisces; and the Ram; Taurus, with Aldebaran and the Pleiades.

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.