Unconventional Astronomer Gifts

Although the telescope's elevation gear was broken, Hopkins' scientists were in no rush to have it repaired.

'Well, there's something you don't see every day'

International Women's Day.

"Our light bill is astronomical living next to a black hole."

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"We can see through the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and into all those distant stars up there in outer space... truly remarkable, huh, girl?"

'Teenagers!'

Alien David statue

"You go on in, I’m just going to catch up with the moon for a few minutes."

"Oh, no - Karen baked a cake so dense that not even light can escape."

The Solar System (after deregulation)

Molecular Biology and Cosmology buildings

"Look what I found, dad!"

'But what is the universe for?'

"Houston - you will Not believe this!"

"Lemme know when you’re ready to howl at it."

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

You too?! I go around feeling half asleep all the time also!

"Abduction 101, when abducting eggs from a primitive planet always lower the temperature in the ship!"

"A full moon! It's like Mother Nature turning on a night light!"

Boptimism

Questions about an old case refuse to go away. . .

Martha Stewart Takes Over The Universe

'You forgot to pay the gravity bill, didn't you?'

"The stars were much more beautiful from Earth."

God Sneezes Out Creation

'BANG' and a cosmology institute appears.

'Never mind that. I think I've just discovered a new planet!'

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

'You caught it, you gut it!'

Science Museum. Why are you skeptical about the things scientists say? Because they claim the universe is expanding but when I visited my childhood hometown, everything was smaller.

"When we're home, are we still aliens?"

The flies have landed.

Archimedes, Galileo, Copernicus

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