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Spiral galaxy photograph mounted on black card – Historic Photo Reproduction

Spiral galaxy photograph mounted on black card — historic photograph
Spiral galaxy photograph mounted on black card. Historic photograph from the Astrology & Magic collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic photograph captures Spiral galaxy photograph mounted on black card in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Spiral galaxy photograph mounted on black card

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A spiral galaxy, its arms wound around a bright core, fills this photograph, which has been mounted on black card so the faint structure stands out against the darkness. Images like this grew out of long-exposure astronomy, which let observers record light too dim for the eye to see through a telescope. Before the 1920s, many astronomers thought spiral shapes were gas clouds within our own Milky Way, a question settled when Edwin Hubble showed they were distant galaxies in their own right. Its place among astrology and magic reflects how long the night sky has drawn both careful study and myth.

Original scan1,145 × 1,452 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
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