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Quotes About Astronomy

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how
~ Oliver Lodge
Rather than get our astronomy with the help of a comic primer of astronomy, it were better to be ignorant with the children whose knowledge went no further than the nursery rhyme, whose hymn to the star was on the note of "how I wonder what you are."
~ Unknown
At 05:44:36 UTC the projectile made an oblique impact on the day-side of the comet, striking near the edge of one of the two craters. The release of kinetic energy was equivalent to detonating 4,500 kg of TNT. As a result, the comet was slowed by an estimated 0.0001 m/s and its perihelion distance was reduce by some 10 meters.
~ Unknown
stars pricked the night sky.
~ Unknown
pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn.
~ Unknown
That's where we are," he said. "One star amongst four hundred billion.
~ Unknown
existe um planeta perdido numa dobra do sistema solar
~ Unknown
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space.
~ Percival Lowell
Swift stars with flashing tresses
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it
~ Peter Cook
Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Astronauts got laid a lot .
~ Peter F. Hamilton