Astronomy Quote by David Christian

“Even stars are formed by loss. You know astronomers believe that galaxies are forged out of huge collapsing stars--- hollow, imploding on themselves.”

— Anonymous

“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies. Nearly a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Every star has its own orbit; and between it and its nearest neighbor there is not only a powerful attraction but an infinite distance.…

— George Bernard Shaw

From what we cannot hold, the stars are made.

— Anonymous

“In 1933, the Indian Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar realized that the Pauli exclusion principle had only a limited ability to fight against the squeeze of gravity.…

— Charles Seife

“Further calculations showed that when collapsing stars are a little more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit, the pressure of the resulting neutrons-similar to the…

— Charles Seife

“But high-mass stars fortuitously explode, scattering their chemically enriched guts throughout the galaxy. After nine billion years of such enrichment, in an undistinguished part…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“what a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the…

— Nikita Gill

“Those stars with more than about ten times the mass of the Sun achieve sufficient pressure and temperature in their cores to manufacture dozens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

a handful of crumpled stars

— Margaret Atwood

“We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”

— Blake Crouch

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die,…

— Hans Bethe