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Discovery of Helium in the Sun: Spectroscopy, Coronium, Nebulium, and the Periodic Table

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Percival Lowell and Martian Canals: Lowell's Speculations about Water and Life on Mars

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Jansky's Early Radio Astronomy: At Bell Labs Karl Jansky Discovered Celestial Short-Wave Signals

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Ptolemaic Geocentric Astronomy: Ptolemy's Geometric Devices Deferent, Epicycle, Eccentric, & Equant

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Ptolemy, Astronomy, & Almagest: The Ancient Greek Ptolemaic Geocentric Astronomical System

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

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