Quotes About Astronomy

since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have the right to name it, but there's a catch.

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

Neutrinos come from the core of our Sun and from the core of every star in our galaxy close enough for its neutrinos to have reached us.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astonomy takes the place of astrology.

Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?" Jorrus said, "Vita ex pulvis." "We are made from the dust of dead stars.

with the center of Stonehenge. It shines through

I've seen more stars than anyone alive. I've killed more stars than anyone will ever see.

I've killed more stars than anyone will ever see

He asesinado más estrellas de las que cualquier persona verá jamás.

Whatever the superior group has will be used as proof of its superiority. Thus, if men could menstruate, it would become a great thing. Without this inbuilt measure of time and the movements of the universe, how could any woman become a mathematician? An astronomer?

a sea of artificial lights has extinguished the stars and drowned the nights

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

James A. Connor

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Stars are dusts from wise men.

One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

I'm kind of a bit of a space nerd. I like all of that kind of stuff.