Edmond Halley Quotes

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone