Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

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.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.