Quotes About Stellar

We have seen that the process of stellar alchemy takes time – billions of years of it. And because our Universe is expanding it needs to be billions of light years in size if it is to have enough time to produce the building blocks for living complexity. A universe that was only as big as our Milky Way galaxy, with its 100 billion stars, would be little more than a month old.

Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

The starry copeOf heaven.

At whose sight all the starsHide their diminish'd heads.

UR O-O: You are cool

One of the best features of my career is that I have gotten to meet and work with some of the most stellar people in the business. From Tim Russert and Jim Lehrer to Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Mitchell and Judy Woodruff, I have learned from the leading lights.

in 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun.

A black hole is a region where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape.

FIGURE 3.1 Stars

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

mmmm, space stuff

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.

The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh more than 500 billion kilograms.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Still larger stars, in turn, fuse those elements into slightly bigger ones, and so on.

Fused in stars and ejected in supernova explosions, or jettisoned by stellar collisions and amalgamated in particle plumes, an assortment of atomic species float through space, where they swirl together and coalesce into large clouds of gas, which over yet more time clump anew into stars and planets, and ultimately into us. Such is the origin of the ingredients constituting anything and everything you have ever encountered.

And the two heavenly bodies danced around their star...

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.