Stellar Objects Quotes

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

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

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.

I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge.

Every star may be a sun to someone.

We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

Diamond planets truly are the most precious.