Planetarium Newsletter - September 2022
Cosmic Curiosities
“Like the moon, I have learned to be beautiful in darkness.”
- Collette O'Mahony, American Author and Poet
Touching the Moon

“Like the moon, I have learned to be beautiful in darkness.”
- Collette O'Mahony, American Author and Poet

" Weather forecast for tonight: dark.”
- George Carlin, American Comedian
"How can I hope to be friends
with the hard, white stars
whose flaring and hissing are not speech
but a pure radiance?”
- Mary Oliver, American Poet
“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close…”
- Robert Coover, American Novelist
“There is every reason to believe that Mars and other planets are inhabited. Why should the Earth be the only planet supporting human life? It is not singular in any other respect."
- Albert Einstein
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”
- Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian
“Mars is the only known planet inhabited by robots.”
- Brian Solis, American Speaker & Author
