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Starry Indigo

1876 Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" Quilt

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Full scale model of roving vehicle. Rectangular, white box set on steel frame with six wheels. On the front is the articulated robotic arm, as well as the main camera that is attached to a mast.

Model, Mars Science Laboratory, Mars Rover Curiosity

Celestial Planisphere Called Astrolabe for Latitude 41

Lunar Rock Sample

Saturn from Voyager I

Card, Commemorative, TV Show, "Lost in Space"

Full-scale model of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, made up of a rectangular white box, dish-shaped reflectors, and gold mylar

Satellite, WMAP, Reconstructed Engineering Model

Raven Steals the Moon

Moon Landing

Beaded Artwork: "Night Sky"

Painting

Pattern of Stars Called the Milky Way

The Apparent Retrograde of the Planets from The beauty of the heavens : a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe

Equatorial Armillary Sphere

Data Sonification: M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) Infrared Only

T -Minus 3 Hours 30 Minutes and Counting

Aurora Borealis

Model, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, 1:24 Scale

Scene of Outer Space

Full view of a camera covered in gold foil sitting on a tripod. A green wire connects it to a small green box.

Camera, Lunar Surface Ultraviolet, Apollo 16

Data Sonification: V404 Cygni

Projectile trains for the Moon from From the Earth to the Moon : direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it.

Milky Way

Untitled #21

Apollo 8 Coming Home

Data Sonification: M104 (X-ray Only)

The Planetary System from The beauty of the heavens : a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe

"Pigs in Space" Puppet

Poster for the film Space is the Place

Starburst

Tour: An Expanse of Light

Quilt

Earth and Sky

The Milky Way from The beauty of the heavens : a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe

Vopel Compendium

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