Galileo's Diagrams showing the position of the moons of Jupiter on successive evenings.
An artist's interpretation of the trappist-1 system.
Data from the trappist 1 system showing the relative brightness of the central star.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Gillon (Univ. of Lige, Belgium)
The dark lines of the solar spectrum as depicted by Fraunhofer (~1814)
Bestimmung des Brechungs- und Farbenzerstreuung-Vermögens verschiedener Glasarten in Bezug auf die Vervollkommnung achromatischer Fernröhre. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/andp.201400807]
The JWST-PRISM transmission spectrum of WASP-39b with key contributions to the atmospheric spectrum.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10487.pdf
The 1919 eclipse
F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson (1920). "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: 332. ISSN 1364-503X.
Cepheid Variables: The light from theses stars changed - periodically!
https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo69newy/page/180/mode/2up
Karl Jansky, at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ
CC-BY: https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/32732
Now, our radio telescopes are much larger and more recognizable.
The Holmdel Horn Antenna on which Penzias and Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background
Data from the original discovery of a pulsar.
Data from: Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source A. HEWISH, S. J. BELL, J. D. H. PILKINGTON, P. F. SCOTT & R. A. COLLINS, Nature 217, 709 - 713 (24 February 1968);
This movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a fast moving jet of particles produced by a rapidly rotating neutron star
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2013/vela/
The "Golden Record"
The expected velocity of orbiting bodies as a function of position from the center.
A measured galactic rotation curve shows that the objects further away move about the same speed as the ones close in. uh-oh
Data from: Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii... Rubin, V. C.; Ford, W. K., Jr.; Thonnard, N. Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 238, June 1, 1980, p. 471-487
The Sojourner rover.
The Perseverance rover landed in Feb 2021
Parker Solar Probe was making its closest approach to the Sun on June 7, 2020, when its Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) captured the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in its field of view.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher
Parker Solar Probe is in the 10th of 24 planned, progressively closer orbits around the Sun. the spacecraft, built and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, launched on Aug. 12, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Two Space telescopes.
Data from the first Advanced LIGO detection
Image credit: LIGO
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