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Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

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 stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.