We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.


Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (ed. 1997)

Vera Rubin Quotes

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.