Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

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

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I've always been consumed by things that are out of this world, like space and moons.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Outside the sky is light with stars

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.