Astronomy
Photo of an old manuscript

The Newton Mess

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Drawing of outer space and planets from an advertisement from the Hercules Powder Company

Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Ladies Who Launch

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A Forgotten Star

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Artist illustration of Keplar-10c

Forbidden Planet, Forbidden Chemistry

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Rare Books
Collections
Spherical space colony

A Future without Limits

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illustration of space community

Is Space the Place?

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17th-century scientists in the lab

Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

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photo of whale with celestial background

Whales in Space

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Jovian Trojans

Rocky Road

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Is Anybody Out There?

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Space Science

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