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<n>Painting with Green Center</n> (1913) by artist <n>Wassily Kandinsky</n>.

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels

<n>Midnight At Midsummer Over The Antarctic Mainland</n> by <n>Albert Operti</n>, based on a photo by <n>Frederick A. Cook</n>.

The <n>Earthrise photograph from Apollo 11 mission</n>, taken by <n>NASA</n> on July 20, 1969.

<n>Lacquer Painting of Toys</n> by Japanese artist <n>Shibata Zeshin</n>.

An illustration by <n>Frederick A. Cook</n> from his 1900 book, <n>Through the First Antarctic Night</n>.

Astronaut <n>Buzz Aldrin</n> on the Moon during the <n>Apollo 11</n> mission, 1969. Photo by <n>Neil Armstrong</n>.

<n>Buzz Aldrin's</n> bootprint in lunar soil from the <n>Apollo 11 Mission</n>, 1969. Photo courtesy of <n>NASA</n>.

<n>Traveling by Moonlight</n> (ca. 1900) by artist <n>Kawabata Gyokushō</n>.

<n>Plate 10</n> from <n>David Boswell Reid</n>'s 1844 book, <n>Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation</n>.

<n>Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons)</n>, an <n>Abstract art</n> painting by <n>Wassily Kandinsky</n> from 1913.

<n>Village among Rocks</n>, a 19th-century lacquer on paper painting by <n>Shibata Zeshin</n>.

A black and brown butterfly perched on a leaf, photographed by <n>Brett Sayles</n>.

Astronaut <n>Buzz Aldrin</n> on the Moon during the <n>Apollo 11</n> mission, July 20, 1969. Photo by <n>Neil Armstrong</n>.

A portrait of philosopher <n>Friedrich Nietzsche</n>, painted by <n>Edvard Munch</n> in 1906.

<n>Orpheus</n> (c. 1903-1910), a pastel by French <n>Symbolist</n> artist <n>Odilon Redon</n>.

Plate VI from <n>J. H. Brown</n>'s book <n>Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions</n>, published 1863.

<n>Hummocks</n> (1878) by <n>Edward L. Moss</n>, from the <n>British Arctic Expedition</n> of 1875-76.

An 1836 oil sketch by <n>Thomas Cole</n> for his masterpiece, <n>The Oxbow</n>.

An eclipse seen from inside an <n>O'Neill Cylinder</n> space colony. Painting by <n>Don Davis</n> for a 1975 <n>NASA</n> study.

<n>Cat Tails and Moon</n>, a 19th-century lacquer on paper painting by <n>Shibata Zeshin</n>.

<n>Silhouette of an unknown man in a top hat and tails</n> (c. 1840) by artist <n>William Henry Brown</n>.

The shadow of an astronaut on the lunar surface during the <n>Apollo 11</n> mission in July 1969. Photo by <n>NASA</n>.

<n>The Mountain Ford</n> (1846), an oil on canvas by <n>Hudson River School</n> founder <n>Thomas Cole</n>.

View of <n>Earth</n> from the <n>Apollo 11</n> mission. Photo by <n>NASA</n>.

A 1551 broadsheet from the <n>Wickiana</n> collection depicting a parhelion over <n>Nuremberg</n>, Germany.