Stellar Nursery Quotes

Even to make the first cell possible, stellar space required to be swept of matter, suns must needs be broken up, and planets cool, the agents of geology labour millennium after millennium at the unfinished earth to prepare a material resting-place for the coming guest. Consider all this, and judge if Creation could have a sublimer meaning, or the Human Race possess a more splendid genesis.

My favorite galaxy of all is called the Sombrero, NGC 4594. It's an amazing galaxy that is really two galaxies in one.

I'm a star, no spangled banner

If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

When stars form a planet, they come in a bunch.

You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.