{"quotes":[{"text":"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","journey-to-mars","mars","mars-mission","mars-one","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nasa","nasa-mars","planet-mars","planets","science","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":9084,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.","author":"Johannes Kepler","tags":["focus","sun","planets "],"id":35678,"author_id":"Johannes+Kepler"},{"text":"Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and space, keeping a part of that light that we've came with and spreading it in this dark world that we've chosen to live in, in order to shine some light and love around. Maybe we've chosen to believe one truth today, and find it to be false tomorrow. Maybe we're trying to not get attached to the idea that we now know it all. At night, we see the truth of where we've fallen from, gazing in that night sky full of distant stars, constellations, planets, the reflection of the sun on the moon, all with their own stories to tell. Sometimes we wonder why would we leave such a mysterious place, with an infinite amount of stories and wonders. Maybe it's because as stars we could've only seen each other's light from afar, but here we can listen more carefully to each other's story, embrace each other and kiss, discover more and more of what can be seen when infinite star dust potential is put into one body and given freedom to walk the Earth and wander, love and enjoy every moment until coming back. Maybe in the morning, we'll only see one star shining up there and forget the others. Maybe that is also how life and death is, and the beauty of the sunrise and sunset that come in between, our childhood years and old years, when we reflect on the stars that we once were and that we will once again be. Maybe, just maybe.","author":"Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache","tags":["attached","beauty","believe","body","childhood","constellations","danced","death","dust","earth","embrace","enjoy","fallen","falling","false","far","freedom","gathered","idea","infinite","kiss","know","life","light","looking","love","maybe","moment","moon","more","morning","mysterious","near","once","others","planets","potential","reflection","separated","shine","skyline","space","stars","stories","sun","sunrise","sunset","tell","time","together","truth","walk","wander","world","years"],"id":56337,"author_id":"Virgil+Kalyana+Mittata+Iordache"},{"text":"There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Poltergeist was the first to be discovered. I know, I was curious about their names as well. Poletrgeist means 'pounding ghost'. The draugr are the unded in Norse legends who live in their graves. And Phobetor is the personification of nightmares, and the son of Nyx, Greek goddess of the night.Astronomers are goths.","author":"Brian Cox","tags":["astronomers","astronomy","goths","humor","planets","science"],"id":59278,"author_id":"Brian+Cox"},{"text":"Imagine, if you will:A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accompanied","and","as","beings","by","called","chose","constellations","creatures","darkness","deceptively","deserted-worlds","different","distant-telescopes","during","human","imagine","into","many","name","nine","numerous","of","on","one","planets","points","ramalama","simply","somewhere","space","star","themselves","they","times","to","too","twice","vantage","will"],"id":64193,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.","author":"Robert Jastrow","tags":["astronomers","creationismism","planets","stars","supernatural","universe"],"id":66293,"author_id":"Robert+Jastrow"},{"text":"I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.A million suns.Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.But all of them are out of reach.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["a-million-suns","across-the-universe","amy","atu-series","awe","choking","earth","elder","emotion","galaxy","home","out-of-reach","planets","sea-of-stars","stars","terror","universe","unreachable"],"id":76602,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"I wanted to fix things, obviously. You know it’s like… the planets are out of alignment when we’re fighting.","author":"Siera Maley","tags":["fighting","planets"],"id":95429,"author_id":"Siera+Maley"},{"text":"On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["chemistry","chemists","moons","planets","science","scientists","space-exploration","titan"],"id":100865,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.","author":"Michael R. French","tags":["collide","inspiration","keep-going","life","lives","planets","universe"],"id":105482,"author_id":"Michael+R.+French"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}