Among the many achievements of nineteenth-century astronomy was the production of a large number of comprehensive and accurate star catalogs. Building upon the less precise observations of previous centuries, European astronomers in the nineteenth...

A star catalogue, or star catalog, is an astronomical catalog that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over...

Byline: Jeff Stage Staff writer Today I'd like to take a look at one valuable resource for U.S. items: the Specialized Catalogue of U.S. Stamps and Covers published annually by Amos Press Inc. of Sidney, Ohio. The book brims with information...

As a woman interested in studying the heavens, Dorrit Hoffleit never had it easy. Astronomers, for the most part, were men when Hoffleit was graduating from Radcliffe College in 1928, and her own mother didn't exactly make it easier on Dr. Hoffleit by telling...