Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1665
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Hevelius's book on comets, 1668
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Comets, 15th century
Philosophical Transactions, volume 1 (1665-6)
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Comet observations, 1740
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Orion Nebula from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
The Globe of Venus (1728), frontispiece
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Galileo's Moon observations, 1610
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Comet Swift-Tuttle, April 1892
Comet Holmes and Andromeda Galaxy, 1892
Comet map, 1740
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624)
Tross map gores, 16th century
Kepler's cosmological model
Medieval constellations, 13th century
Astronomical table, 14th century
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Solar surface observed by Janssen, 1890
Henry Blunt's model of craters on the Moon, 1849
Sizes of celestial bodies, 1708
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Comet Arend-Roland, Belgian stamp commemoration
Comet Hale-Bopp
Comet Brooks, 1893
Comet Morehouse in 1908, stereoscopic card
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
Tartaglia on ballistics, 16th century
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Epicycles of Moon's orbit, 1708
Phases of the Moon, 1708
Close-up of Comet Hyakutake taken on 26 March 1996
C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) comet
Comet C 2014 Q2, optical image
Comet Neowise, 23 July 2020
Sun and Moon astrology, 16th century
Vesta asteroid, satellite image
ISS and Atlantis against the Sun
Orbit of comet C-2014 S3 (PANSTARRS), illustration
Halley's Comet, 1986
Comet Donati, artwork
Great comet of 1811, artwork
Comets and Eta Corvi planet, artwork
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
William and Caroline Herschel Sculpture
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1588)
Anderson's rocket treatise, 17th century
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Map of Breda, 17th century
Fludd's cosmology, 1617
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Artwork of the nucleus of a comet
Comet Arend-Roland
Comet Hyakutake on 20th May 1996
Comet approaching the Sun
Effect on Jupiter's atmosphere of comet impacts
Artist's impression of the interior of a comet
Comet Levy
False-colour photograph of Comet Bennett
Comet heading for Mars, artwork
Comet, artwork
Comet C/2001 Q4
Quaoar in the Kuiper belt
Comet Encke, Spitzer image
Comet Hyakutake
False-colour optical photo of Comet Bradfield
Diagram of highly elliptical orbit Halley;s comet
Comet C 2014 Q2, NEOWISE image
Comet 46P Wirtanen, November 2018
Comet C 2013 A1 Siding Spring, NEOWISE image
Coloured computer image of Comet DeVico.
Comet Neowise over Miradouro Olhos do Tua, Portugal
Solar eclipse seen from the Moon, 1893 illustration
Wright's theory of the universe, 1750
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Van Leeuwenhoek's 'Dissections and Discoveries', 1696
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
Africa, 1595 Mercator atlas
Artwork of an assistant measuring stellar spectrum
Central part of the Orion Nebula, 1874
Comet C-2014 S3 (PANSTARRS), illustration
30-inch telescope, Helwan, Egypt
30-inch telescope focus, Helwan, Egypt
Optical photo of the Pleiades & Halley's Comet
Comet West
Philae lander
Comet Lulin and Saturn
Halley's Comet in May 1910
Comet ISON, April 2013
Comet Ikeya-Seki
Comet ISON, composite image
Comet Ikeya-Seki, coronagraph
Rosetta spacecraft launch
Earth's first oceans, illustration
Comet Lulin
Comet Tempel 1, before Deep Impact strike
Comet Machholz
Deep Impact comet strike
Comet Tempel 1
Comet McNaught, 20th January 2007
Comet McNaught, 22nd January 2007
Comet McNaught, 26th January 2007
Comet McNaught, 29th January 2007
Comet McNaught, 30th January 2007
Comet NEAT C/2001 Q4
Comet Holmes in Perseus, November 2007
Comet 2008 J1 (Boattini), May 2008
Halley's Comet, 1910
Comet ISON, November 2013
Comet ISON, October 2013
Comet Holmes
Comet Encke
Comet P2013 CU129
Comet C2013 R1
Galaxy NGC 2997 and comet C2012 V2
Comet C2012 V2
Comet C2012 F6
Comet C2011 L4
Comet C2011 L4 with the star Kochab