Celestial Object Quotes

Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in.

Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

I mean astronomically, that one doesn't even make sense. Because if you shoot for the moon, you're not going to land on the stars. The moon is closer than all of the stars.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

I lost the ball in the moon.

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.