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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
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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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"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone."
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"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer."
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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
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"This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords."
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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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"The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed."
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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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"Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?""Yes.""All like ours?""I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.""Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?""A blighted one."
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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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"I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end."
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"Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography."
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