Space
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Meet me in outer space
We could spend the night
Watch the earth come up
―Incubus
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
―Galileo Galilei
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There was a young woman
named Bright
Whose speed was far faster
than light
She started one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
―A.H.R. Buller
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Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
―Fred Hoyle
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The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I walk through the universe in my sneakers.
―Billy Collins
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Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes if you're really looking.
—George Carlin
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
―Carl Sagan
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100% stardust.
―Seen on a T-shirt at Berkeley Bowl
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On the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
The existential wonder of space
A year of amazing images from the James Webb space telescope
A guide to the James Webb telescope’s view of the universe
The coolest space picture I’ve ever seen
This is the picture astronomers have been waiting for
The Webb space telescope is a time machine
There is a planet with clouds made of sand
Seeing earth from space will change you
What is a black hole and how did we discover them?
What exactly is a black hole event horizon (and what happens there)?
Behold, the bottomless pit holding everything together
The cutest thermonuclear explosion in the universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Buddhistic” astrophysics
How vast is the cosmos, really?
Mercury is the Inspectah Deck of planets
The incredible shrinking planet
This is the last image sent by NASA's Messenger before it crashed into Mercury
The most overhyped planet in the galaxy
The photoshoppers behind dream Jupiter photos
Astronomers are now obsessed with a particular gas on Venus
A gnarly new theory about Saturn’s rings
The infinite possibilities in a tiny smudge from outer space
These 10 super extreme exoplanets are out of this world
Look at what happens when two galaxies collide
The spookiest sound in astronomy
A flash of recognition in a lonely universe
Carl Sagan on the whiteness of Star Wars
From the archives: Holy Shit, Man Walks on Fucking Moon
NASA scientists confirm Earth dating the moon