Night Sky Enthusiast Gifts

Skimming out star reflections

'Goodness! Is that the time?'

"If we announce what we've found, it'll get a small article in the paper. If we say we can't figure out what it is, it'll make the front page."

'I have to say, the stars are magnificent in the desert at night...'

Blue video.

'It can't be easy being a wishing star. It's probably 'gimme gimme gimme' all night long.'

"Even though we work with enormous numbers, a zillion just doesn't tell us very much."

Romantic Moon

Pilot with champagne.

'I don't know which was prettier - the meteor shower or the cascade of flaming space junk.'

"Isn't the universe wonderful?" "I thought there was supposed to be fireworks."

Serenading

'Flight simulator'

"Something goes around something, but that's as far as I've got."

"Oh Wow! Shooting star!"

'Stop quoting from films and get on with it.'

"When I was your age the Big Dipper was over THERE."

"Another nightmare?"

"Dad, can you tell me what a solar eclipse is?"

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant my awesome beard is."

"You're right. This is better than sex."

'I love looking at the stars. I think of us as celestial paparazzi.'

Scientist drinking night sky through telescope

'We discovered a massive dust and gas cloud which is either the beginning of a new star of just a hell of a lot of dust and gas.'

Entry level astronomer...

'Millions of billions of trillions of light years away? I could visualise it if you said it in MILES!'

The Moon Falls Out of the Sky.

'OK, who stuck that wedding confetti star on it?'

'Watch this space.'

"Papi! There's a lunar eclipse tonight at 2:47 in the morning!"

At the space-time institute.

"That cloud looks like a sheep. I wonder what our Doctor Rorschach would make of that."

"Someday, God willing, they'll bring the stars down to our eye level so we don't have to strain our necks."

The Dark Side of the Moon.

Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac: 'The Limoges conference...study the chemical composition of the atmosphere at high altitudes."