Astronomy Quote by Stephen Hawking

“In 1997, the Hubble telescope took flight to give us a look through its powerful lens into places we had never known or seen…

— Tony Evans

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

— Martin Rees

“We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself…

— Stephen Hawking

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets,…

— Carl Sagan

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

— Heidi Hammel

A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but…

— Arthur Eddington

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will…

— Seth Shostak

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable…

— Seth Shostak

Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.

— Heidi Hammel

You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.

— Stephen R. Lawhead

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the…

— William Least Heat-Moon

What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.

— Janna Levin