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Lisa:
Remember, Dad. The handle of the Big Dipper points to the North Star.
Homer:
That's nice, Lisa, but we're not in astronomy class. We're in the woods.
—
Homer Simpson
(Dan Castellaneta)
,
The Simpsons
,
Season 1
:
The Call of
Advice
Stars
Astronomy
Class
Woods
Directions
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Kyle Anderson
: Maybe I can just hang here in class with you?
Mandy Baxter
: Okay, I guess. Are you sure you won't be bored?
Kyle Anderson
: Are you kidding me? I love astronomy. Have you got into Capricorns yet?
Mandy Baxter
: Oh, this is
Intro
to Astronomy. I'm pretty sure they get to horoscopes
next
semester.
Kyle Anderson
: It's a good thing Capricorns are able to deal with crushing disappointment.
—
Kyle Anderson
(Christoph Sanders)
,
Last Man Standing
,
Season 3
:
Pledging
Astronomy
Astrology
Horoscopes
capricorns
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Stars are better off without us.
—
Detective Josephus Miller
(Thomas Jane)
,
The Expanse
,
Season 2
:
Godspeed
Stars
Astronomy
The Universe
Heavenly
Sad
Sassy
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Zorya:
You keep giving away your life. You don't much care if you live or die do you?
Shadow:
The world's not what I thought it would be.
Zorya:
You'd rather die than live in a world with bears in the sky.
—
Shadow Moon
(Ricky Whittle)
,
American Gods
,
Season 1
:
Head Full of Snow
Life
Death
Depression
Disillusionment
Astronomy
Stars
Bear
Jaded
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Shadow:
What are you looking at up there?
Zorya:
I was looking at that. See?
Shadow:
The big dipper?
Zorya:
Odin's Wain, they call it. And the Great Bear. It is a thing. It's not a god. Like a god. It's a bad thing. Chained up in those stars. If it escapes, it will eat the whole of everything. So we watch the sky all day, all night, the three sisters. If he escapes, the thing in the stars, the world is over. Like that.
Shadow:
And people believe that?
Zorya:
A long time ago.
—
Shadow Moon
(Ricky Whittle)
,
American Gods
,
Season 1
:
Head Full of Snow
Stars
Astronomy
Legend
Myth
Bad
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Sabrina:
Are you kidding? I’d love to meet the Violent Femmes! When? Where?
Harvey:
Well, they’ll be signing CD’s at Music City in Boston tonight at midnight.
Sabrina:
Midnight! That’s perfect. I have no conflicting plans. But I still have to ask my aunts.
Harvey:
Just tell them what I told my parents. It’s an astrology field trip.
Sabrina:
Don’t you mean astronomy?
Harvey:
Wow, they’re paying even less attention than I thought...
—
Harvey Kinkle
,
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
,
Season 1
:
Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years
The Violent Femmes
Music
Astrology
Astronomy
joke
Family
Parents
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
—
Galileo Galilei
,
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Astronomy
Night
Earth
Moon
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Many of us suspect that all of this—all the worlds, stars, galaxies and clusters in our observable universe—is but one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of other universes; a multiverse. Universe upon universe; worlds without end.
—
Himself - Host
,
Cosmos : A Spacetime Odyssey
,
Season 1
:
Standing Up in the Milky Way
Astronomy
galaxies
Stars
Universe
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There are something like a trillion galaxies in the observable universe, of a range of sizes. And galaxy collisions happen a lot.
In fact, galaxies primarily grow by cannibalizing other (smaller) galaxies. Our own has eaten several—we can see streams of stars as debris.
In fact, galaxies primarily grow by cannibalizing other (smaller) galaxies. Our own has eaten several—we can see streams of stars as debris.
In addition to making the galaxies look like a train wreck (this is the term we often use), the merging can also cause new stars to form.
Throwing a lot of gas together & stirring it around can create new stars. And it can feed the big black holes too.
For all that chaos, collisions between stars themselves are actually pretty unlikely. There's a LOT of space between stars, even in galaxies.
—
Katie Mack
,
via twitter.com
Space
Astronomy
Universe
Solar System
Stars
galaxies
galaxy
galaxy collision
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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
,
via twitter.com
Space
Astronomy
Sun
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'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
,
via twitter.com
Space
Astronomy
astronomical terms
Stars
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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
,
via twitter.com
Space
Astronomy
astronomical terms
Stars
Star
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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
,
via twitter.com
Space
Astronomy
astronomical terms
Stars
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'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
,
via twitter.com
Space
space terms
Universe
astronomical terms
Astronomy
Black hole
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One of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
—
Tom Wolfe
,
Fascism mystery
political
Fascism
Astronomy
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