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• Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use ‘data sonification’ to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.

  Honor Harger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Astronomy, Visualize

• 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.

  George Phillips Bond

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Astronomy, Celestial, Topography
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  The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Topics in History

  Tags in Astronomy, Receding

• It’s like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Astronomy

• This sight… is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

  Edmond Halley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Noblest, Astronomy
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  Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.

  Brian Harold May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun, Astronomy

• Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

  Ernst Mach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Young, Astronomy

• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Travelling, Astronomy

• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Behold, Astronomy, Charity, Journalist

• Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

  Stephen Leacock

  Tags in Astronomy, Planets