In the 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers catalogued the universe on glass photographic plates. Astronomers still study these plates, which serve as record of the sky spanning almost 100 years ...
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Let's imagine that you're hiking with friends to the summit of a nearby mountain or hill, and you'd like to capture the excursion on film. Today, you would just need carry along a small camera — the ...
Researchers have digitized historical photographic plates showing negatives of the night sky and published the images online. After a total of 10 years, the project has now been completed successfully ...
A study published in Scientific Reports analyzes more than 100,000 fleeting flashes captured on old astronomical photographic plates and finds statistically significant correlations with atomic tests ...
Scientists have found the oldest-known manmade evidence of an exoplanetary system— and it’s been sitting in a basement for almost a century on a piece of glass. In 1917 at the Mount Wilson Observatory ...
I THINK I may fairly assume that every one in this theatre has had their photograph taken, and consequently must have some idea of the nature of the process employed. I have, therefore, only to add, ...
BISMARCK — Shane Balkowitsch may have made photographic history. More than 100 collaborators came together Saturday, July 17 at the University of Mary’s Marian Grotto in Bismarck to create what is ...
A century's worth of astronomical photographic plates have revealed a slew of new variable stars, many of which alter on timescales and in ways never before seen. The discoveries come from a new ...
THE halo effect is well known in mass spectrometry and consists of a large black spot on the photographic plate in the neighbourhood of high intensity isotope lines. It causes an undesirable rise in ...
A pair of new peer-reviewed scientific papers claim to have detected the presence of UFOs in photographs taken in the 1950s. Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical ...
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