Srid pai khor lo (Wheel of Life). Painting on cloth, 20th century.
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Model of the Moon, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 1898
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Total phase of the lunar eclipse of Sept. 3, 1895. The astrophysical journal. December 1895
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Operation Eclipse - Spectrum of Totally Eclipsed Sun’, taken by an unknown photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 9 July 1945
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A Meteorite plunges to the earth. From Minerals from earth and sky. Smithsonian scientific series. 1929.
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Tapestry of the Creation, 11th – 12th century, tapestry, 365 × 470 cm, Cathedral of Girona, Girona
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Fenestra Coeli Apertae (The Windows of Heaven were Opened), Physica Sacra. 1731
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Tavatimsa. Three Buddhist Heavens. Burma, ca. 18 century. Accordion-style paper manuscript.
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Diagram of Heaven and Hell. Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus. 18th century
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Libra - from the Book of Wonders, Kitab al Bulhan, composite manuscript in Arabic, late 14th century C.E., Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani
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The constellation ‘Felis’, added by a French astronomer in 1798
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50 years ago today, in a cold field outside Cambridge, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell found signals from the first radio pulsar bbc.co.uk/science/space/
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Not all radio telescopes look like
. The scintillation array used by Bell Burnell covered two acres and was made up of 1000s of posts and 120 miles of cable. She spent the first 2 years of her PhD building it (
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