Seth Shostak Quotes

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves at the Earth.

The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and they haven't killed us yet.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

In the midst of all dwells the sun.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

We're physically part of the sun. The sun gives us energy, creates our world.

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.

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

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.

The first unquestionable proofs of the transformation of elements into different chemical elements have been provided by the study of the phenomena of radioactivity.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

We live inside the atmosphere of an active star.

Saturn itself is a giant planet, and there's much to be gained by investigating its meteorology and studying its magnetic field.

Solar storms cause power outages. They pose a hazard to satellites. They might interfere with your GPS or send your compass a couple of degrees off course. But I don't think solar storms are a life-threatening event.

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.

The sun derives its energy from fusion reactions in which hydrogen is transformed into helium.