"A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light...

"For decades, Kip Thorne has been consumed by a desire to better understand our universe s "Warped Side." Using an untold number of computer simulations and mathematical equations, and with a thousand-person fleet of scientists and engineers, Thorne has...

Nakamoto discusses the ongoing cosmic detective story of BL Lacertae. The story begins in 1800s using photography, an invented tool in astronomy to capture exactly what was visible through the telescope. In 1929, German astronomer Cuno Hoffmeister...

Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, mysterious - the Sun has fascinated people throughout history. This book charts our changing understanding of the Sun through a rich collection of scientific imagery; from the first sketch of a sunspot by a twelfth-century...

After a flood threatened to destroy the Harvard College Observatory s trove of glass plate negatives, staff members and students from around the University showed up to help move the plates to safety.

A burst pipe flooded Harvard College’s Observatory Hill, submerging thousands of historic photographic plates underwater. Recovery is now under way.

The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. –

This collection includes a variety of materials from selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

"A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light...

Museum astrophysicists are searching through early photographs of the night sky and, with the help of high school students, helping to digitize them along the way. For more about astronomical instrumentation through the ages, head over to the episode...

In the late 19th century, astronomers developed the technique of capturing telescopic images of stars and galaxies on glass photographic plates. This allowed them to study the night sky in detail. Over 500,000 glass plate images taken from 1885 to 1992...

Are century-old, original images of the cosmos worth saving in an era of digitized astronomy?

A century s worth of astronomical photographic plates have revealed a slew of new variable stars, many of which alter on timescales and in ways never before seen.

"A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light...

The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. –

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives...

Until the application of dry-plate photography to astronomy, very few women were involved in astronomical observations. Then, from the mid-1880s to the mid-1950s, women, especially at Harvard College Observatory, contributed more data on variable stars...

"Oui, regardez les femmes modernes dans les sciences spatiales, mais allez plus loin. Elles ont toujours été là. Depuis aussi longtemps qu elles l ont pu, elles étaient là."