Nature

History of Physics and Astronomy articles from across Nature Portfolio

The Universe between recombination (redshift z ≈ 1,000 or 400,000 years after the Big Bang) and the later formation of the first generation of stars at z≈ 30 to 12 (~100 to 300 million years after the ...
IrishCentral

Irish Astronomy's "Golden Age" and the world's largest telescope

Irish Astronomy's "Golden Age" and the world's largest telescope IrishCentral contributor Michael O’Shea in conversation explores the history of astronomy in Ireland dating from the 18th century and ...
insider.si.edu

Celestial sleuth : using astronomy to solve mysteries in art, history and literature / Donald W. Olson

pt. I. Astronomy in art -- Monet and Turner, masters of sea and sky -- Vincent van Gogh and starry skies over France -- Edvard Munch : mysterious skies in Norway -- Yosemite moonrises and moonbows -- ...
insider.si.edu

The Norton history of astronomy and cosmology / [John North]

Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...
The Conversation

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

The planetary radar, built in 1960 in Crimea, from which the Morse signal ‘MIR, Lenin, USSR’ was sent in November 1962. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Archive As humans began to explore outer ...