ASTRONOMY

<n>Rifts in the Milky Way</n>, published in <n>The Popular science monthly</n> in 1900.

<n>The Zodiacal Light</n> (1876) by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n> from <n>The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings</n> (1882).

Illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s 1870 novel <n>Around the Moon</n>.

Illustration of the 1878 solar eclipse from the book <n>Newcomb and Holden's Astronomy</n>.

<n>Light Projection #18</n> (2012), a toned silver gelatin print by artist <n>Thomas Brummett</n>.

Spiral nebula seen on edge from the book <n>The Earth and the Stars</n>. Photo by <n>Mount Wilson Observatory</n>.

A 1950 photograph of <n>The Great Spiral Nebula in Andromeda (M31)</n> from <n>Mount Wilson Observatory</n>.

An 1870 engraving by <n>Henri Théophile Hildibrand</n> after <n>Émile-Antoine Bayard</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s <n>Autour de la Lune</n>.

A photograph of a plaster model of the lunar crater <n>Copernicus</n> by <n>James Nasmyth</n>, published in 1874.

An 1874 photograph of a plaster model of the lunar crater <n>Wargentin</n> by artist <n>James Nasmyth</n>.

An 1870 illustration by <n>Émile-Antoine Bayard</n> and <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s novel <n>Around the Moon</n>.

From the <n>Mood campaign</n>, photographed by <n>Kelley Shaffer</n>.

<n>Great Nebula in Andromeda</n>, photographed by <n>George Willis Ritchey</n> at <n>Yerkes Observatory</n> in 1901.

An 1886 print of <n>The Moon</n> from 'The Story of the Heavens' by <n>Robert S. Ball</n>.

Plate XVI from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s 1750 book, <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n>.

<n>Around the Projectile</n>, an 1870 illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s 'Around the Moon'.