Today, humanity's most advanced telescopes allow astronomers to peer far into the universe. NASA's newest and most powerful astronomical workhorse, the James Webb Space Telescope, has been delivering ...
You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn’t know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie ...
Tucked away on Observatory Hill, a spectacular array of lunar photographs resides in the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection. The collection holds ...
On a small hill in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 170 tons of glass, imprinted with history, sit in a dimly lit corner. Each rectangular plate is about the size of a sheet of paper and, with ...
The Photographic History Collection (PHC) collection of panoramic objects is fairly extensive. The collection includes about sixty pieces of panoramic related equipment including cameras and ...
Muddy water from a burst pipe rushed through the Harvard College Observatory on Jan. 15, flooding its collection of more than half a million astronomical photographic plates. The glass film negatives ...
The László Moholy-Nagy Collection in the National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection is comprised of seven photograms, two photomontages, and one gelatin silver print.