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    1. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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    3. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

      Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

      • Date: October 28, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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      Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

      • Date: May 11, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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      The Near Faraway

      • Date: December 3, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret Geller

      • Date: March 28, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Margaret J. Geller, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a pioneer in mapping the nearby universe who provided a new view of the enormous patterns in the distribution of galaxies like the Milky Way. #Groundbreaker

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      Link Love: 2/9/2018

      • Date: February 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim

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      Wish You Were Here?

      • Date: December 1, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they

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      Link Love: 8/24/2012

      • Date: August 24, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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      Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!

      • Date: November 5, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of

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    19. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    21. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Senior Astrophysicist, Dr. Christine Jones Forman, is attempting to measure how large scale structures in the Universe grow from early times to the present through the Chandra Xray Oberservatory. She is the Smithsonian’s Director of the Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Christine Jones Forman

      • Date: March 4, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Obervatory’s Senior Astrophysicist, Dr. Christine Jones Forman, is attempting to measure how large scale structures in the Universe grow from early times to the present through the Chandra Xray Oberservatory. She is the Smithsonian’s Director of the Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe. #Groundbreaker

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      If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?

      • Date: May 22, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe

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