Space Telescopes Quotes

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror.

Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.