Hubble Celebrates 35th Year in Orbit
Astronomers knew that placing a telescope above Earth’s blurry atmosphere would allow for them to behold the Universe like never before. Hubble’s view would be ten times sharper than conventional ground-based telescopes of the time. Its high sensitivity would uncover objects more than one-billionth the brightness of the faintest stars seen by the human eye. […]
The Overlooked Masterpiece Full of Coded Messages About World War One
On a rocky beach that glows red with lava, smoke-breathing dragons surround wretched-looking prisoners beseeching an angel to deliver them from suffering. The oil painting Death of the Dragon by Evelyn De Morgan looks at first like a scene from the New Testament’s apocalyptic Book of Revelation. But, painted between 1914 and 1918, it’s also […]