Extragalactic Astronomy Quotes

The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.

As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.

Our galaxy's pretty ordinary, garden-variety. So if we believe our galaxy has a super massive black hole, that tells us that most, if not all, galaxies host such a black hole at their centers.

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.