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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
Let's go rattle the stars.
Spun sugar clouds and extraterrestrial crystal vintage T-birds flying through space, morning-glory girls swinging from star-hung vines in cosmic gardens.
Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.
The pole's center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person's head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surface. But rare down here, even after the Hard Rain.
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.
Dust motes swirled in the air like tiny orbs of rainbows.
[an encounter in space] Some celestial event. No
no words
no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful ... I had no idea. I had no idea.
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.
the silver pepper of the stars.
Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.
All at once I began dreading to look at them as they passed. I saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types--something one would not care to remember. The
A journey into the celestial cosmos!
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth?
Thus a man looking through a tremendous telescope does not see the cirri of an Indian summer above his charmed orchard, but does see, as my regretted colleague, the late Professor Alexander Ivanchenko, twice saw, the swarming of hesperozoa in a humid valley of the planet Venus.
Stony objects with diameters 10 in are intercepted by the Earth's atmosphere every decade, and their entry (at speeds -20 km/s) discharges energy equivalent to about 100 kt TNT, roughly seven times the energy released by the Hiroshima bomb.
I just saw Hayley's Comet, she waved, said Why you always running in place? Even the man in the Moon disappeared
somewhere in the stratosphere.
Streams of melting snow.
And you have fixed my life - however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.
The stars glitter from outside... like cosmic confetti sprinkled across the night sky.
Talk about celestial bodies.
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.
The sky drops silver threads of sleet.
Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.
The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
Earth's flaming farts, it worked!
Lets rattle the stars.
That night, there were meteor showers. It seemed to me that even the sky was weeping. Two
the jet stream undulating over us like an angry snake god.
Dust Glitter Rain
I measure meteors the size of planets when led to erection,
Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.
He took the laser pointer off the side table and flicked it on, dancing its red light over the wall. Comet finished eating then walked over like he wasn't really interested, like he just happened to be passing by, but then went predictably crazy.
The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions of tiny stars shone, a diamond heist gone awry.
And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?
What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?
red-hot fireflies
Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a
A poem is a meteor.
The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.
Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
blown about us by the wind, and drink the
universe in a glass of rain.
The Dothraki named the comet shierak qiya, the Bleeding Star.
It was becoming more and more clear that if the asteroids were the schools of minnows swimming among the pod of whales, then Pluto and the Kuiper belt objects were simply a previously overlooked collection of sardines swimming in a faraway sea.
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
She comes with horns not the moon
And tail not the comet
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.
What power could bruise the sky? Melliel
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
We can rattle teh stars
We are nothing but space dust, trying to find its way back to the stars.
You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
ASTRONOMERS TO CONGRESS: WE'RE NOT ALONE
The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.
As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
A fine silver rain, like cobwebs falling.
The starry cope Of heaven.
Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.
But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.
In Jupiter, there are Earth-Size storms; and in Earth, there are Jupiter-Size lies!
'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.
Usually it was like spillage- cold and heavy, slippery and gray- but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes.
The Flying Saucers Are Real. New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Publication, Inc., 1950.
Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud.
All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.
Planets and humans are alike. They collide during conflicts, but shine during peace.
The storm front had finally broken, tatters of cloud pulling apart like cotton candy and sprinkling the sky with the bright sugar grains of stars.
Cloud root beer floats and moon grilled cheeses. But their favorite food is stardust.
You could rattle the stars.
Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell
We have bottled the stars this evening, my young friends.
The stars are particularly spectacular tonight, don't you think? Dazzling. As if they've all had a good rinsing from the storm.
Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
Thunder, showers hit Blue Earth.
Gape at her, bloody, broken parts,
can you track her clouds -
a clever farce of sky and sun
Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?"
"I'm sure I should."
"They're the best ones."
"How come?"
"Because they look the way clouds are supposed to look, the way you draw them when you're a kid. Which is nice, you know? I mean, the sun never looks the way you drew it.
Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus
chap 22.
and the stars were icicles of mockery
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
Look at you, glowing like a solar fire. You're something special... You're going to rattle the stars, you are.
The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.
There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks ...
like a small sandstorm that keeps changing
They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.
hurricane in human form.
a cloud, it wouldCloud-- John Fowles
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn's spinning pulsars ...
Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
Hope clouds observation.
But what thrilled me most was the fact that millions of meteors burn up every day as they enter our atmosphere. As a result, Earth receives ten tons of dust from outer space. Not only do we take in the world with each breath, we are inhaling the universe. We are made of stardust.