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The Carnegie Institution for Science announced this week that one researcher's dive into a collection of glass photographic plates turned up an unexpected image from 1917 that indicates the presence of an exoplanetary system.
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Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen.
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The same year that Albrecht Dürer created his famous rhinoceros woodcut, the German artist also collaborated on the first star charts printed in Europe.
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Astronomers have long considered the harmony of the universe as a sort of music, from Pythagoras and the Musica Universalis, to Kepler and the "music of the spheres."
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In the early 20th century, the world watched in anticipation as Stetson-capped explorers disappeared into the Amazon jungle.
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Maps made by the US Geological Survey offer a vastly different visual depiction of the Earth’s moon, using the full color spectrum to denote differences in topography and geology.
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People have been photographing the heavens ever since the invention of the daguerreotype. Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Minor White all, at one point or other, turned their cameras upward.
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A new eBook is aiming to make that starscape engaging for everyone, including the visually impaired.
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While searching for Orion or the Great Dipper, it's easy to forget that these constellations are just the arbitrary imaginations of astronomers drawing with stars. While Ptolemy referred to mythology for the classic constellations, later stargazers turned to their own visual culture. Up in the heave
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A new technology is allowing astronomers to take sharper than ever photographs of the night sky, revealing secrets of the solar system and the universe beyond.
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Though Micheal Wenyon and Susan Gamble's show A Universe held up for Inspection focuses on displays of holograms and other works, the real raison d'ete of this exhibit is to reveal the frisson erupting over the last gasp of the analogue picture.