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Occasionally, people even share a career between astronomy and the humanities: The musician and composer William Herschel became one of the most important astronomers of the 18th century.

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

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The distant celestial wonders in the sky above New London will soon be more visible than ever. An anonymous Connecticut ...