Cosmological diagram from BL YT 31, f. 45
Diagram showing distances within the sublunar sphere, with angels turning the handles of the poles, by which it is turned, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. Image taken from f. 45 of Breviari d'... More
The earth from BL Eg 843, f. 23
Miniature of the earth in a circle, with personifications of the four cardinal points. Image taken from f. 23 of Tractatus de sphaera (index De sphera); Hippocras, De Contemptu Mundi; Astronomical treatises, et... More
Wind rose from BL Harley 3017, f. 128v
Wind rose with the earth at the centre of the diagram. Image taken from f. 128v of A Carolingian miscellany of computational and astronomical texts and tables, including decennovenal (19-year) cycles (ff. 3v-8)... More
Diagram from BL Royal 15 B IX, f. 10
Diagram with decorated bands. Image taken from f. 10 of De institutione musica; a miscellany of works on geometry, astronomy and mathematics. Written in Latin; Hebrew (f. 78). The BL Royal Manuscript Collectio... More
Venus from BL Royal 19 C I, f. 41v
Detail of a miniature of Venus with a mirror, swimming. Image taken from f. 41v of Breviari d'Amor. Written in French (Occitan) (Provencal). The BL Royal Manuscript Collection, also known as the Royal Collecti... More
Emblem of Percy moon receiving light from the Tudor sun from BL Royal ...
Emblem of a man (a king?) wearing a crown of flames and holding an orb marked 'Sol' in the centre of a radiating Tudor Rose inscribed with verses 'Ex paterno trono radii splendoris/ ex matre candor virginii dec... More
Constellation: Dolphin (Delphinus) in National Library of Netherlands
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Halley, Edmund - Public domain portrait engraving
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Ptolemaeus, Claudius - Public domain portrait engraving
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Fixlmillner, Placidus - Public domain portrait engraving
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Portrait - Galilei, Galileo, scientist
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Cassini, Giovanni Domenico - Public domain portrait engraving
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Portrait - Galilei, Galileo, scientist
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Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm - Public domain portrait engraving
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Burckhardt, Johann Karl - Public domain portrait print
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Cassini, Giovanni Domenico - Public domain portrait engraving
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Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm - Public domain portrait engraving
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Heller, Joachim - Public domain portrait engraving
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Cassini, Giovanni Domenico - Public domain portrait engraving
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Portrait - Galilei, Galileo, scientist
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Halley, Edmund - Public domain portrait engraving
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Portrait - Brahe, Tycho, scientist
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[Atlas, dressed like an ancient king, holding earth centered universe ...
Illus. in: The cosmographical glasse / William Cuningham. Excusum Londini : I Day, 1559. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 16.
Louis Félix de la Rue - François Boucher - Astronomy
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Arago, Dominique François - Public domain portrait engraving
Drucker: Delpech, François Séraphin Lithograph: Maurin, Nicolas Eustache Datierung: 1814 / 1825
Heyden, Christian, Christoph van der Heyden
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De Neutralisten Rolwagen, 1603 - Public domain dedication image
De Neutralisten Rolwagen, 1603. Spotprent op Jan Claesz Rolwaghen (eigenlijk Johann Clausen Kotte) en de visioenen en profetieën van Robbert Robbertsz Le Canu. Heeft betrekking op de gescheidenis van de Doopsge... More
R. Michault - Cadran horizontal
Epoque de Louis XIV, la Régence d’Anne d’Autriche, du 15 mai 1643 à 1659 (Serie's title) Verso non visible
Gesina ter Borch - Wandelend paar bij maanlicht
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Model van het planetenstelsel - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Dee, John - Public domain portrait engraving
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A map of the moon showing phases The geography of the great solar ecli...
Shows the path of the eclipse. Relief shown pictorially. Includes 24 diagrams showing the eclipse as seen from different cities. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC cop... More
[Groups of stars]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Illus. in: Thomas Wright, An Original Theory... of the Universe..., London, 1750, plate XII. Reference copy may be in SSF - ASTRONOMY. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card t... More
Natuurkundige instrumenten - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication imag...
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Vignette with an Allegorical Figure of Astronomy
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Maria Flaxman - Truth brought home
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Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm - Public domain portrait engraving
Radierer: Scriven, Edward Verleger: Knight, Charles (1791) Verlag: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Verlagsort: London
Der gestirnte Himmel : südliche Halbkugel /
Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Spotting throughout and mounted on cloth.
Portrait - Galilei, Galileo, scientist
Stecher: Singer, Johann Paul Verlag: Lloyd Triestino Datierung: 1840 / 1876 Verlagsort: Triest
Leonardus Valck - Astronomische meetinstrumenten
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Mikroskopisch-Photographischer Atlas der Harnsedimente
Robert Ultzmann (Austrian, 1842–1889) Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Laterna magica bild målad i färg på glasskiva.Månförmörkelsens orsaker...
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August Mattsson vid sina astronomiska instrument. Hallsberg, Örebro, S...
August Mattsson vid sina astronomiska instrument.
[Solar Eclipse from Caroline Island]
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Fred Pegram from "At the Rising of the Moon. Irish stories and studies...
This image has been taken from scan 000091 from "At the Rising of the Moon. Irish stories and studies, etc". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Brit... More
Carte photographique de la lune
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Ranger and telescope at our night sky program.
A park ranger adjusts the monument's telescope at one of our night sky programs, with a star filled sky behind her.
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) - Womens history month
Creator: Science Service..Subject: Cannon, Annie Jump 1863-1941. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Women scientists. Variable stars. Astronomy..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105... More
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941), sitting at desk
Description: First hired by Harvard College Observatory to carry out astronomical calculations, Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) eventually became one of the foremost American astronomers, known especially for her... More
Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond / - Public domain map
Appears in: Sydow-Wagners methodischer Schul-Atlas. 1923, 1926 and 1928 editions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth.
Sur Mars. Lyon Municipal Library public domain dedication
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[Telescope?] - Public domain photograph
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Spins showing mu-mu-epsilon. Photograph taken April 3, 1957. Bubble Ch...
Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD201210-01337.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab
Space Pioneer Nancy Roman. NASA public domain image colelction.
Dr. Nancy Roman, one of the nations top scientists in the space program, is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO). Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 194... More
Palomar Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California
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Earth from space, Mercury IX imagery
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GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-12 - ASTRONAUT TRAINING - UNDERWATER - MD
S66-54937 (29 Oct. 1966) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., pilot for the Gemini-12 spaceflight, practices egress procedures from a mock-up of his spacecraft during underwater zero-gravity training. He holds a ... More
Model of the Skylab with the Command/Service Module
This photograph is of a model of the Skylab with the Command/Service Module being docked. In an early effort to extend the use of Apollo for further applications, NASA established the Apollo Applications Progra... More
Buzz Aldrin's Footprint on the Surface of the Moon
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AS09-22-3410 - Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 Mission image - Earth Observations ...
The original database describes this as: Description: Oblique Earth Observation taken by the Apollo 9 crew. View is of the West African coast,Mauritania,Port Etienne. Film magazine was C,film type was SO-368 E... More
Skylab. NASA Skylab space station
The Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), one of four major components comprising the Skylab, was designed and developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center. In this image, the ATM is shown undergoing horizontal vibrat... More
Skylab. NASA Skylab space station
This photograph shows the flight article of the Airlock Module (AM)/Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) assembly being readied for testing in a clean room at the McDornell Douglas Plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Altho... More
C-141 KAO TELESCOPE SYSTEM EQUIPMENT AND ASSEMBLY IN N-242. BOB KRAUS ...
C-141 KAO TELESCOPE SYSTEM EQUIPMENT AND ASSEMBLY IN N-242. BOB KRAUS OF OWENS - ILLINOIS operating control paddle
Skylab. NASA Skylab space station
This onboard photograph depicts Astronaut Owen Garriott atop the Apollo Telescope Mount, removing a film magazine (white box) from one of Skylab's solar telescopes during an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) in the... More
Deployment of "Parasol" solar shield
S73-26775 (26 May 1973) --- The deployment of the "parasol" solar shield, a sunshade to help cool the overheated Orbital Workshop of the Skylab 1 space station cluster in Earth orbit, can be seen in the reprodu... More
COMETS - ASTRONOMY - KOHUTEK - CATALINA OBSERVATORY
S74-17688 (11 Jan. 1974) --- This color photograph of the comet Kohoutek was taken by members of the lunar and planetary laboratory photographic team from the University of Arizona, at the Catalina Observatory ... More
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecra...
Artist: Rick Guidice Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteriod Belt: If spacecraft are to visit the outer Solar System, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jpiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the qu... More
A red and blue nebula with stars in the background. Orion nebula emiss...
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Enterprise - First Tailcone Off Free Flight
The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to begin a powerless glide flight back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Cal... More
Art By Don Davis As the probes and the bus enter the Venusian atmosphe...
Art By Don Davis As the probes and the bus enter the Venusian atmosphere they glowed briefly like meteorites. The bus as shown in this artisit's rendering, was most spectacular because it did not carry a heat s... More
Artist: Rick Guidice Artist conception of surface of Venus. ARC-1977-A...
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High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)
Both of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) 2/Einstein Observatory imaging devices were used to observe the Great Nebula in Andromeda, M31. This image is a wide field x-ray view of the center region of... More
Pioneer 11 Image of Saturn and its Moon Titan
Description: (August 26, 1979) NASA's Pioneer 11 image of Saturn and its moon Titan at the upper left. The irregularities in ring silhouette and shadow are due to technical anomalies in the preliminary data lat... More
Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its ...
Photo by Voyager 1 (JPL) Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb 5, 1979 by Voyager 1. The spacecraft was 28.4 million kilomters (17.5 million mi... More
C-141 Bell Labs. Submillemeter Line Astronomy Group Experiment ARC-197...
C-141 Bell Labs. Submillemeter Line Astronomy Group Experiment
STS064-14-010 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
STS064-18-027 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 in orbit
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery dur... More
STS069-703-000AU - STS-069 - View of the deployment of the SPARTAN 243
The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of the deployment of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN) 201 includes Long distance shots of the SPARTAN 201 free ... More
STS069-707-005 - STS-069 - View of SPARTAN 201 during STS-69 mission
The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN) 201 satellite includes SPARTAN 201 free flying over the Earth's horizon. S... More
STS064-14-035 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
STS064-66-025 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 being released from the RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) being deployed from the Space Shuttle Discove... More
STS064-14-022 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
STS064-14-006 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
STS069-703-000F - STS-069 - View of the deployment of the SPARTAN 206
The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of the deployment of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN) 201 includes Close-up views of the SPARTAN 201 free flyin... More
STS064-61-029 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 attached to Discovery's RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) attached to the Space Shuttle Discovery's Rem... More
STS064-18-029 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 in orbit
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery dur... More
STS064-66-021 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 being released from the RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) being deployed from the Space Shuttle Discove... More
STS064-66-027 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 being released from the RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) being deployed from the Space Shuttle Discove... More
STS067-706A-079 - STS-067 - ASTRO-2 payload in cargo bay of STS-67 End...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Wide views of ASTRO-2 payload in the cargo bay of STS-67 Endeavour in varying light levels. Subject Terms: STS-67 ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER) PAYLOAD BAY EART... More
STS064-61-036 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 attached to Discovery's RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) attached to the Space Shuttle Discovery's Rem... More
STS064-14-004 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
STS064-61-031 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 attached to Discovery's RMS
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) attached to the Space Shuttle Discovery's Rem... More
STS067-706A-077 - STS-067 - ASTRO-2 payload in cargo bay of STS-67 End...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Wide views of ASTRO-2 payload in the cargo bay of STS-67 Endeavour in varying light levels. Subject Terms: STS-67 ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER) PAYLOAD BAY EART... More
STS064-14-011 - STS-064 - Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for...
The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay ... More
Composite Art C-141 KAO Airborne Astronomy Composite shows A/C AC80-0...
Composite Art C-141 KAO Airborne Astronomy Composite shows A/C AC80-0006-2, Venus AC78-9140, Jupiter AC79-0143-1, Uranus AC77-0359, Console AC75-1345 and Telescope AC81-0299-17
An image of a very large cloud in the sky. De mairan's nebula messier ...
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A view of a laser pointing telescope before installation on the top of...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kirtland Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released t... More
Around Marshall. NASA public domain image colelction.
One of the main components of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the Solar Array Drive Electronics (SADE) system. This system interfaces with the Support System Module (SSM) for exchange of operational command... More
History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
This image illustrates the overall Hubble Space Telescope (HST) configuration. The HST is the product of a partnership between NASA, European Space Agency Contractors, and the international community of astrono... More
A far ultraviolet image of Comet Halley, taken by an electronic camera...
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