Imagining the moon
Mare Crisium in a lithograph printed in 1834 from observations at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. The photograph was made by an amateur astronomer in 2010. The moon “appeared like […]
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What turtles looked like before the evolution of shells
This one is 240 million years old, from the Triassic period, collected in Germany. The discoverers named it Pappochelys, which is derived from Greek words for ‘grandfather’ and ‘turtle’. These […]
A supernova in needlepoint
I hate to admit that I didn’t know a thing about the amazing astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin until I stumbled on an archival photograph of her less serious work with needle […]
