A new exhibit at the Smithsonian showcases magisterial images of stars and planets light years away from our own…
When Jonathan McDowell first got interested in space when he was a kid, growing up in the United States and England during the space race. “It’s always been a bit of a philosophical thing for me,” he said, “the questions of where do we come from, and the awe and majesty of the scales involved.” Now, a few decades and one eponymous asteroid later, an exhibit he helped curate at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum is, he hopes, giving more people that same curiosity about the world that inspired his career as a scientist at the Smithsonian’s Astrophysical Observatory….
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