Astronomy Quote by Martin Rees

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge…

— Alice Hoffman

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next…

— Tycho Brahe

“When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off…

— Todd Nelsen

A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing…

— Paul Davies

The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage.…

— Seth Shostak

We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue…

— Sunita Williams

The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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

There are millions of stars out there. It is difficult to think that life does not exist in any one of them.

— Sunita Williams

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

— Camille Flammarion

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet…

— Ben Sweetland