A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93)

Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)

A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)

Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals

Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)

The Comet Book (1587)

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

Urania’s Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens (circa 1825)

August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1893–4)

Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874)

The Celestial Atlas of Andreas Cellarius (1660)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions

Flowers of the Sky

Space Colony Art from the 1970s