Quotes About Astronomy

Like celestial bodies, transiting in their orbits, exerting their influences.

A hundred quintillion googols!

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

[On the Dating Handbook] 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

I've seen more eclipses than I care to remember

I laugh and the stars watch.

El charlatán es siempre el que va de descubierta. Del astrólogo salió el astrónomo, del alquimista el químico, y del mesmerismo, la psicología experimental. El charlatán de ayer será el profesor de mañana. Andando el tiempo, hasta una materia tan sutil y resbaladiza como la de los sueños será sistematizada y puesta en orden.

The Copernican system was not a truly heliocentric one; it was a vacuo-centric system, so to speak.

But the Solor System!

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind: astronomy has its caricaturist in astrology, chemistry used to have alchemy. So

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind: astronomy has its caricaturist in astrology, chemistry used to have alchemy.

But the Moon has its own intrinsic geography.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it. The

This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there's no immediate cause for worry!

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every hundred million years. Our sun is just an ordinary, average-sized, yellow star, near the outer edge of one of the spiral arms.

Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado

If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow.

an elipse is an elongated circle