Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!' — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional.… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
