Astronomy Quote by Brian Greene

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the…

— Sunita Williams

“Since 1995, astronomers have found nearly two thousand confirmed planets around other stars. Some of these planets are similar to Earth in size and…

— Bill Nye

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

— Leonard Cohen

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

— Giordano Bruno

In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but…

— Seth Shostak

Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

— Carrie Nugent

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

— Thomas M. Disch

Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky planets around…

— Debra Fischer

Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?

— Louise Rennison

Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun.

— Seth Shostak

We live inside the atmosphere of an active star.

— Heidi Hammel

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

— Carl Sagan