Why do you like Astronomy?

Answer 1

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

Answer 2

I am absolutely fascinated by Astronomy. Mainly because there is so much that is unknown that I often wonder what is happening out there right now. The astronomical measurements and the physics of the Universe is amazing.

The Universe id God's best work of art.

I am a high school chemistry and physics teacher.

Answer 3

astronomy is both the closest and the most distant science from common experience. Every curious person who gazes at the night sky becomes an astronomer, and yet the things we see in outer space are wholly outside our earthbound experience. It's the last and greatest area of exploration-where all the basic Q of human kind can be answered

Answer 4

I just love Astronomy.
Can't take off my eyes from the pretty pics taken by the HST!
Knowing more and more about space where i have not been
Seeing the space shuttle taking off into the outer world and looking at the astronauts staying in the black sky.
Well many Astronauts and astronomers get paid enough,
It would be like a honour to be in the space-centre.
Astronomy also defines mathematics, physics, chemistry and also biology.
I would just love being in a space centre but I'm still 13 now.....

Answer 5

Well when I was very young I always was asking my dad about the stars and he bought me a cheap telescope that I could look at the moon with and see it very well, Then as I grew up I started studying all about the planets and stars and the galaxys and so on , so nowadays I still have a passion to study space and also to teach others who dont know that much about it because I look back to my younger days and think ,boy I sure wish we would have known back in the 60s what we know now,,

Answer 6

I like astronomy because there is no limit. Even tho humans have been around for thousands, if not millions of years, we still have not explored or even figured out what lies within the entire universe. We havent even figured out everything about our solar system. pluto has never been traveled to, although there is a spacecraft on its way to it right now. The way you can weigh 800 pounds on Earth and then go to the moon and weigh 75 is completely amazing to me. The variations through out the universe keeps us guessing and never fails to satisfy out curiosity. :)

Answer 7

I love astronomy like many other sciences.

It is interesting to see how things outside our world happen and what things are like up there.
There are many, many alien worlds that we cannot comprihend and so little that we kow about the discovered ones.

This is Earth on it's own can keep us facinated for thousands of years, and there is much much much more outside it.

Sabre

Answer 8

It's cool to think about a volume of space and how it works even though the distances and sizes involved are excessively larger than anything I will encounter in a tangable way here on earth.

Answer 9

As a vampire, it was astronomy or taking up knitting. I am all thumbs, so I bought a telescope.

Answer 10

Because I like looking at the stars at night.