Stellar Population Quotes

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Star people are rare.

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.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

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

The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.