Astronomy Quote by Heidi Hammel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet.

— Heidi Hammel

We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not.

— Heidi Hammel

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

— Heidi Hammel

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