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New Acquisition Makes the Rubin Museum World Leader in Tibetan Astrological Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 24, 2015December 1, 2015

With the Rubin Museum of Art’s recent acquisition of a mid-18th-century manuscript known as White Beryl, the Manhattan museum now holds the world’s leading collection of Tibetan astrological and cosmological paintings.

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11,000 Photos of the Apollo Lunar Missions Land on Flickr

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 7, 2015October 14, 2015

When the Apollo astronauts traveled beyond the atmosphere and to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s, they carried Hasselblad cameras to document the NASA missions.

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Playing Piano with the Harmonies of Eclipsing Stars

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 10, 2015August 10, 2015

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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As Pluto Comes into Sharp Focus, NASA Embarks on a New Unknown

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 15, 2015July 15, 2015

Early yesterday morning Pluto, three billion miles from Earth, appeared in our sharpest view yet.

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Follow All the Tech and Trash Orbiting Earth, in Real Time

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 10, 2015

While humanity has only been launching huge payloads into outer space since the 1950s, with Sputnik breaking into orbit in 1957, a lot of human-made debris and technology now circle the planet.

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Drawing the Vast and Invisible Dark Matter of Our Universe

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 17, 2015June 19, 2015

The majority of our universe is energy and matter that we cannot see. The dark matter that overwhelms our earthly objects emits no light, and is therefore a nebulous thing to represent, something that is more an idea than a vision.

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How the Space Race Altered Art in the Americas

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 28, 2015May 29, 2015

Space exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969.

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NASA Launches $2.25M Design Competition to 3D Print Habitats for Mars

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 20, 2015May 21, 2015

The hope is that 3D printing and the incorporation of spacecraft waste and materials from the alien world can in turn help address affordable housing on Earth.

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Travel to Space (and Back in Time) with Vintage NASA Photos

by Laura C. Mallonee May 7, 2015May 7, 2015

In the early 20th century, the world watched in anticipation as Stetson-capped explorers disappeared into the Amazon jungle.

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Our View from the Cosmic Shore: Early Modern Interpretations of Celestial Events

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 19, 2015March 20, 2015

When Milton was writing Paradise Lost in the 17th century, a comet grazed through the sky, inspiring the English poet to describe how Satan “stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn’d.”

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Conjuring Art Between Magic and Outer Space

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado March 12, 2015March 11, 2015

MEXICO CITY — Last year, London-based polymath Nahum became the first artist recognized by the International Astronautical Federation as a young leader in space exploration.

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Over 600 Rare US Space Photographs Go on View in London

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 11, 2015February 13, 2015

Over 600 vintage space photographs from NASA missions, many not seen by the public before, are on view in London until their auction at the end of the month.

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