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Toy, Captain Video, Superior Space Port

Apollo

Data Sonification: M16 (Eagle Nebula, "Pillars of Creation") Multiwavelength

Untitled

(The Cosmos Suite) Novem I

The Cosmos Awaits

Orrery

Split

Baby's quilt

Harvest Star

A Tour of the Universe's Expansion May Not Be The Same In All Directions

Hammett’s Planisphere

Large orb covered in photos of craters and mountains on Mars. The color is a brownish gray due to the black and white television images used to create it.

Photomosaic Globe of Mars

The Exploration of Mars

Postcard

Cosmos #3

Untitled (stellar map featuring Canis Vena Tici and Coma Berenices)

Power to Explore

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan

Celestial map showing various constellations from Atlas designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens.

Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder

Model, Pioneer Venus Multi-probe, 1:24 Scale

Earth-Moon Connexions

Star Finder

Untitled

Cosmos #1

Photograph, Electric Spaceship for Manned Mars Flight

Untitled

Armillary Sphere from Epytoma Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei

Wide Field Planetary Camera II (WFPC 2) Hubble, Flown

Untitled #48

Lunar Rocket

Circular gray model of an alien spacecraft. The top tier contains vertical, tubular spires. Rods protrude along the circumference of the middle tier. All set on a saucer-like base.

Model, Spacecraft, Mother Ship, Movie, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Lunar Landscape

Acrylic on canvas, Jupiter

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Throne of Saturn

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