Quotes About Astronomy

I've been getting into astronomy, so I installed a skylight. The people who live above me are furious.

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.

We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system.

The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.

We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...

In the astronomy of high school life, Sarah would never have entered his orbit.

His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.

I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.

Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.

Outside the sky is light with stars

The word "planet" comes from the ancient Greek word for "wanderer," because the planets seemed to move against the more fixed lights of the stars.

The windchill factor above Camp IV could only be found on a chart for Mars.

A golden half-moon graced the black velvet sky, no clouds in sight, allowing a blanket of stars to twinkle in every direction.

Globular clusters!

Early astronomers said they were rogue planets, or the exhalations of gas from the Earth, or even the smoke of human sins that rose into the sky and burst into flame.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.