“I mean OK the fact that we can WATCH THE SUN VIBRATE & figure out what’s inside, that’s cool, but we can also do this for OTHER STARS. It’s called asteroseismology & it’s kind of blowing my mind today.”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“A 'hypernova' is a supernova (exploding star), but, like, more so. (It’s defined as being any supernova that’s at least 10 times as luminous as usual.)”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“A 'cataclysmic variable' is where a compact dense white dwarf star is in a binary orbit with a bigger puffier star & the WD (white dwarf) rips material off its companion & that material detonates on the WD’s surface.”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“'Violent relaxation' comes from highly technical uses of both those terms. “Relaxation” referring to a system (eg, stars in a cluster) achieving some equilibrium (steady) state, and “violent” meaning rapid. It can happen when mass comes together quickly gravitationally.”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“'Spaghettification'” is what happens to you when you fall into a black hole feet first (for instance) and the gravity is so much stronger on your feet than your head that you’re stretched out to some kind of spaghetti-like carnage-shape.”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“Once we were impressed by buildings; now we are impressed by virtual on-line spaces, that’s all.”— Ellen Ullman, amazon.com
“What would you call a movie about baseball game in space? "Star Balls: the Umpire Strikes Three".”— zorbama, reddit.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“She's out there. Setting up camp. Alone, in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now she's settling in for the long nap. At the light of our new sun. In our new home.”— Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, Murph, Ellen Burstyn, amazon.com
“I ran the astronaut school for six years, and I was the commandant and when I finished in '65, 26 of my guys went into space as NASA astronauts that I trained.”— Chuck Yeager, inspiringquotes.us
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”— Richard Brautigan, articles.baltimoresun.com
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.”— Marla Miniano, amazon.com