“These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.”
Warren Brown
“Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.”
Werner von Braun
“They're typically seen in starburst galaxies, where there's a lot of star formation and large stars don't last very long. They typically explode soon after they're made — where 'soon' is a million years.”
Frank Marshall
“In one of the most inhospitable places in our galaxy, stars have prevailed. It appears that star formation is much more tenacious than we previously believed.”
Sergei Nayakshin
“If we see a star at a large distance from the center of the galaxy, that star is going to be mostly moving either away from the center or back toward the center. Almost certainly, most of its motion is perpendicular to our line of sight.”
Avishai Dekel
“It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.”
Martin Dansky
“We believe that BCD galaxies are similar to the universe's first galaxies because they are infant galaxies, actively forming stars, and are not very chemically polluted.”
Yanling Wu
