"As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as t…"

"For the Milky Way, we find that the orbital speed increases and then remains roughly constant. This implies that we a…"

"...the mass where we can see stars is only 1/3 of the mass of the entire Galaxy. This suggests that a lot of mass in …"

"Fascinated by its symmetry the geometer may at times have been too exclusively engrossed with his science, forgetful …"

"Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never …"

"It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner t…"

"Astronomers have mapped the cosmic watershed in which our Milky Way Galaxy is a droplet. The massive structure, which…"

"We cast the message to the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future. When our civilization is …"

"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human bein…"

"Most known extrasolar planets (exoplanets) have been discovered using the radial velocity, or transit methods. Both a…"