Quotes About Astronomy

People have discovered asteroids in the Main Belt that outgas like comets, and things on cometary orbits that no longer outgas - that don't have tails. We're finding all of these unique cases.

Hubble uniquely has been able to look in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a nearby star and figure out what's in that atmosphere.

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.

Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies.

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.

Fred Hoyle was one of the first scientists to become famous on television and radio. It was because he told a dramatic story about the universe - about how amazing it is and the extraordinary discoveries that astronomers like him were making.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.