Astronomy and Space Exploration
- EADS Phoenix, a prototype launch vehicle
- Phoenix Cluster, a galaxy cluster
- Phoenix (constellation)
- Phoenix (Chinese astronomy)
- Phoenix Dwarf, a galaxy
- Phoenix (spacecraft), a NASA mission to Mars
- Project Phoenix (SETI), a search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Famous quotes containing the words astronomy, space and/or exploration:
“It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference to death.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the movie woman’s world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it’s all the same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)