The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.
The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.
The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.