Quotes About Celestial

Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun.

The transit of Venus of 1769 finally allowed us to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun: 149.59 million kilometres. A

Pluto is about 40 AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. In a word, it is remote. But

The Earth at last had a position in space.

Most star systems in the cosmos are binary (double-starred), which makes our solitary sun a slight oddity.

transits of Venus, as they are known, are an irregular occurrence. They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more

Only about 6,000 stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth, and only about 2,000 can be seen from any one spot. With binoculars the number of stars you can see from a single location rises to about 50,000, and with a small two-inch telescope it leaps to 300,000.

what moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time." Of

the average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.

Miraba las estrellas que se perseguían por el cielo, despidiendo grandes resplandores al alcanzarse. Tres de ellas, arriba, a la derecha, mimaban una danza oriental. De ven cuando volutas de noche las ocultaban.

When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them

When you die, you will be spoken of as those in the sky, like the stars.—Yurok

Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

Around the overturned enamel tray, a star of thermometer shards glittered, and balls of mercury trembled like celestial dew.

In the dust of Her feet are the hosts of heaven/and Her star sequined hair/ Is crowned with a coven of six and seven/Blue suns burning there. —VICTOR H. ANDERSON (IN HIS POEM "QUAKORALINA," IN Thorns of the Blood Rose)

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

This is where the staring angels go through. This is where all the stars bow down.

En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría.

The traditional sacred king was himself of a divine nature and the 'gods' were his peers; he was, like them, of 'celestial' stock, he had the same blood as they; he was thus a centre, an affirmative, free, and cosmic principle.

The sky above was a vault of blackness-and everywhere, the stars!

It was as though the Gods had dropped something—a comb, a hairpin, a needle—and it had fallen down to earth; unimaginably huge and incomprehensibly magnificent, made of celestial materials by a divine craftsman, too big and too beautiful to have any place in our world, utterly incongruous, a numbing statement of the difference between Them and us— Excuse me. It was an impressive sight.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Its a moonsmile. No light of its own unless there's a sun for it to reflect off

Mithra became the Sun,