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"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."
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"Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go."
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"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."
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"Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe, that was almost an article of faith among scientists."
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"The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed."
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"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
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"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
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"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer."
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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."
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"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
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"I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
Identity
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
Parenting
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
Family
"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
Spiritual
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
Life
"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
Life
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
Family
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
Spiritual
"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
Love
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
Parenting
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