Come Quote by Noel Edmonds

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three…

— Seth Shostak

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and…

— Christopher Pike

From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“To interpret dots in the sky as white-hot, million-kilometre spheres, one must first have thought of the idea of such spheres. And then one…

— David Deutsch

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft sped through the Saturnian system more than a quarter of a century ago, it came within 90,000 kilometers of…

— Carolyn Porco

There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and videotapes have…

— Steven M. Greer

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

— John Wagner

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

— William Shakespeare

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I…

— Nell Zink

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

— Fritz Zwicky

When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.

— Kate Bush

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

— Ezra Cornell