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Credit: Nostalghia (Channel YouTube)

Vera Rubin's First-Ever Images: Virgo Cluster/Trifid&Lagoon

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I was reading about Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of DNA in 1953…and admiring Santiago’s beautiful drawings of neurons…and Alan Hodgkin et Andrew Huxley’s mathematical discovery of calculating how action potentials propagates along a neuron…I couldn’t help but think how romantic it all is. To me it’s so interesting learning about the process of discovery. It’s incredible because all these people were just like us—students. It’s romantic because it’s human—a human experience—an insatiable thirst for knowledge, curiosity that knows no end. A perseverance to succeed. The ultimate quest to generate a novel idea before anyone else does. How can anyone say that science is not poetic? Science is poetry written in a different language, an esoteric one at that. But poetry nonetheless.

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Francisco Goya, The Dog, ca. 1819-23

Chesley Bonestell, 1975.

Credit: Robert Ćwikliński

The 1-metre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope at Piszkéstető Observatory, Mátraszentimre, 1974. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

“The North Star and the dippers.” Our Wide, Wide World. 1932. 

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John Henry Harvey - The Moon, 1875- 1938

View From Space, 1969

Gingko Leaves, Photo by Irving Penn, 1990

Total Eclipse of the Sun, Quebec 1920 s