EditorialThe asteroid Apophis recorded by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. (NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO via The New York Times)
EditorialLarkin Carey, an optical engineer, examines two test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope’s on a prototype at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Sept. 29, 2014. (Chris Gunn/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialThe James Webb Space Telescope undergoing tests at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 2020. (Chris Gunn/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialMercury, the planet closest to the Sun. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington via The New York Times)
EditorialThe Hubble Space Telescope being deployed in 1990, a success story of the Decadal Survey. (NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed Corporation via The New York Times)
EditorialSidereal Clock, made in 1800 Attributed to James Newton, Sidereal time is a timekeeping system that astronomers use to locate celestial objects. Using sidereal time, it is possible to easily point a telescope to the proper coordinates in the night sky....
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EditorialIn an undated photo from NASA, Surveyor 3, which successfully landed on the moon, photographed by the Apollo 12 astronauts in November 1969. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAstronomers and planets of our solar system. The Discovery of a World in the Moone. Or, a Discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet. [By John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester. London : Printed for John ...
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Editorial[Whole folio] Astronomers at the top of Mount Athos. Four astronomers study the night sky with quadrants and astrolabes. In the foreground, three men with sticks are tracing inscriptions which give the impression of a secret script or one of the foreig...
EditorialAn artist’s impression of the material around an exploded star known as Supernova 1987A. The explosion was in 1987 and was the closest supernova to Earth in hundreds of years. (L. Cal?ada/ESO via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image taken in 2008 by the Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut b in orbit around the star Fomalhaut. (NASA, ESA and P. Kalas/University of California, Berkeley via The New York Times)
EditorialPortrait of Johan Philip Lansberge at the age of 67, Portrait of writer and astronomer Johan Philip Lansberge at the age of 67, bust dressed in a gown in an oval frame. Latin verse of six lines in lower margin. On the reverse of the title page of the L...
EditorialDigital Image - George Denton Hirst with Family, Mosman, New South Wales, 1898, George Denton Hirst (1846-1915), standing with his family at the front of his home at 28 Muston Street, Mosman, New South Wales, May 1898. George Denton Hirst was a success...
EditorialPhotograph - Eta Argus Nebula, taken with Great Melbourne Telescope, 1883, Experimental photograph of Eta Argus Nebula taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope, probably early 1883. In 1882 astronomers in Britain and America began to s...
EditorialTapestry: The Astronomers from The Story of the Emperor of China Series, Beauvais Manufactory (French, founded 1664), Woven under the direction of Philippe B?hagle (French, 1641 - 1705), After cartoons by Guy-Louis Vernansal (French, 1648 - 1729), and ...
EditorialPhotograph - Orion Nebula, taken with Great Melbourne Telescope, 1883, Photograph of the Orion Nebula, taken by Joseph Turner with Great Melbourne Telescope, 26 February 1883. In 1882 astronomers in Britain and America began to successfully use the mor...
EditorialPhotograph - Orion Nebula, Taken with the Great Melbourne Telescope, Victoria, 26 Feb 1883, Photograph of Orion Nebula, taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope on 26 Feb 1883, with an exposure of 4 minutes. In 1882 astronomers in Brit...
EditorialPhotograph - Eta Argus Nebula, taken with Great Melbourne Telescope, 1883, Experimental photograph of Eta Argus Nebula taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope, 7 January 1883. In 1882 astronomers in Britain and America began to succes...