Quotes About Astronomy

Recall that the Milky Way is a disk galaxy, meaning most of the stars and gas lie in a thin disk, about 130,000 light-years across but only roughly 2,000 light-years in thickness. The Sun is located at a distance of about 27,000 light-years from the galactic center, and happens at this moment to be close to the galactic midplane—less than 100 light-years away. It is also at the edge of a spiral arm.

the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought

A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory.

Everything you're seeing up in the night sky happened thousands of years ago, because the light takes so long to reach us," Gabriel says. "I always thought it was so strange… that sailors chart where they're going in the future by looking at a map of the past.

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

until recently no one could know that the little blob of light marked the presence of another galaxy, one twice the size of the Milky Way and home to half a trillion stars. Or that these next-door neighbors were but two of 100 billion galaxies likewise swarming with stars.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

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Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

By this technique of measuring, the oldest Earth rocks found so far date only to 3.5 billion years ago. The Moon missions returned some 900 pounds of rocks and soil samples. From these, a curious factoid was ultimately revealed in 1973: some of the Moon rocks dated back to 5.3 billion years ago. Thus, between

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella? Ve lo dicano gli astronomi. Quanti secoli ci vollero al sentimento umano per concertarsi in coscienza? Lo dicano gli antropologi.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations are wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.

Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?