The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon (1840) - Open Culture

Everyone has been agog over the first photos from the James Webb telescope, and for good reason. “These images,” Rivka Galchin writes at The New Yorker, “carry news about the early universe, the birth and death of stars, the collision of galaxies, and the atm…

Everyone has been agog over the first photos from the James Webb telescope, and for good reason. These images, Rivka Galchin writes at The New Yorker, carry news about the early universe, the birth a… [+4180 chars]

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