The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.Seth Shostak
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.Seth Shostak
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.Seth Shostak
The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.Buzz Aldrin
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.Galileo Galilei
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.Neil deGrasse Tyson
