Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robert Jastrow

Born: September 7, 1925
Died: February 8, 2008 (aged 82)
Bio: Robert Jastrow was an American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist. He was a leading NASA scientist, populist author and futurist.
Known for:
- God and the Astronomers (1978)
- Red giants and white dwarfs (1969)
- Origins of Life in the Universe (2008)
- Until the Sun Dies (1977)
- Journey to the Stars (1989)