Astronomy

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Tens of thousands of rocks make up what is thought to be a giant star calendar.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.