It's the stars

It's not only the stars though. Space and astronomy and astrophysics. In progress, like the universe.

Collecting quotes about space from books.

Looking up, I, with tear-dimmed eyes, saw the mighty Milky-way. Remembering what it was—what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light—I felt the might and strength of God.

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 1847

For the first time in my life I was calm, not content or happy, but calm. It had something to do with the stars and the fact that I suddenly knew they were real, but why that was so I couldn't explain. It just was.

The Wall, Marlen Haushofer 1963

A lineage of slow, weak, naked, awkward creatures on a far luckier planet had lasted through several near-extinctions and held on long enough to discover that gravity bent light, everywhere in the universe. For no good reason and at insane expense, we’d built an instrument able to see the tiniest bend in starlight made by this small body, from scores of light-years away. Get out, my son said. You’re making that up. And we were, we Earthlings. Making it up as we went along, then proving it for all the universe to see.

Bewilderment, Richard Powers

Links

• I wrote To see stars 1st October 2025
• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system

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