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• Astronomy

• Galaxies -- Clusters
• Galaxies -- Congresses
• Galaxies -- Evolution
• Galaxies -- Formation
• Galaxies -- Motion in line of sight
• Galaxies -- Spectra
• Radio sources (Astronomy)
• Spiral galaxies
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• Extragalactic nebulae
• Nebulae, Extragalactic
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• The Scale of the Universe (published as an issue of the Bulletin of the National Research Council, 1921), by Harlow Shapley and Heber Doust Curtis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Evolution of the Solar System (1976), by Hannes Alfven and Gustaf Arrhenius (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Meteorites and the Early Solar System (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1988), ed. by John F. Kerridge and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Other Worlds: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Garrett Putman Serviss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (3 volumes in 1; Annapolis: St. John's Bookstore, c1939), by Nicolaus Copernicus, trans. by Charles Glenn Wallis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1917), by Dorothy Stimson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Solaria Binaria: Origins and History of the Solar System, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet (ca. 1915), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)

• Clavis Caelestis: Being the Explication of a Diagram, Entituled A Synopsis of the Universe or, The Visible World Epitomiz'd (with a reconstructed interactive diagram; first published 1742), by Thomas Wright, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)

• Exploring the Solar System: A Professional Development Training (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2016) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• New Moons: Towing Asteroids into Earth Orbits for Exploration and Exploitation: Transcripts of the Presentations at the Special Session of the Eighth Lunar Science Conference, 16 March 1977, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1977), ed. by David R. Criswell (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Workshop on Cometary Dust in Astrophysics: August 10-15, 2003, Crystal Mountain, Washington (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2003), ed. by Donald Brownlee, Lindsay P. Keller, and Scott R. Messenger (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Protostars and Planets IV (c2000), ed. by Vincent Mannings, Alan Boss, and Sara S. Russell (PDF at Arizona)

• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI (1977), ed. by Philip Morrison, John Billingham, and John Wolfe (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Fourth International Conference on Early Mars: Geologic, Hydrologic, and Climatic Evolution and the Implications for Life, October 2-6, 2017, Flagstaff, Arizona (program and abstract volumes; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2017) (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Protostars and Planets II (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1985), ed. by David C. Black and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• On a Lark to the Planets: A Sequel to "The Wonderful Electric Elephant" (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1922), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by Winifred D. Elrod (page images at HathiTrust)

• Protostars and Planets: Studies of Star Formation and the Origin of the Solar System (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1978), ed. by Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, by Lunar and Planetary Institute (partial serial archives)

• Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1950), ed. by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on Comets, Which Gained the First of Dr. Fellowe's prizes, Proposed to Those Who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black, et al., 1828), by David Milne-Home (multiple formats at Google)
• The Exploration of Near Earth Objects, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Stories of Infinity: Lumen; History of a comet; In Infinity (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by S. R. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1883), by Ignatius Donnelly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Genethlialogia, or, The Doctrine of Nativities, Containing the Whole Art of Directions, and Annual Revolutions (London: Printed by J. Cottrel for G. Calvert, 1658), by John Gadbury (PDF at astrologiamedieval.com)

• Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Exploration of Near Earth Objects, by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Protecting the Space Shuttle From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Physics of Meteor Flight in the Atmosphere (New York and London: Interscience Publishers, 1958), by Ernst Julius Öpik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of Catastrophe: A Handbook of Shock-Metamorphic Effects in Terrestrial Meteorite Impact Structures (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, c1998), by Bevan M. French (PDF files at usra.edu)

• Kant's Cosmogony: As in His Essay on the Retardation of the Rotation of the Earth and His Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1900), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011), ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch (multiple formats with commentary at NASA)
• Toward Distant Suns (originally published 1979), by T. A. Heppenheimer (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)
• Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science, by Homer E. Newell (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• Space Technology for the New Century, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Protostars and Planets III (Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, c1993), ed. by Eugene H. Levy and Jonathan Irving Lunine (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets (1984), by M. H. Carr, R. Stephen Saunders, Robert G. Strom, and Don E. Wilhelms (PDF files at usra.edu)
• Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (partial serial archives)
• Const-Toonneel, Inhoudende de Beschrijvinghe ende XL. Heerlijcke Afbeeldindinghen Onses Heeren Jesu Christi, met Sijne Apostelen, Ende Evangelisten, Midtsgaders de Hooft-Deuchden Ende Ondeuchden; Ende Ten Laetsten de Seven Planeten (in Dutch; Delff: N. de Clerck, 1609), by Nicolaes De Clerck, illust. by Jan Wierix
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Planetary Satellites (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1977), ed. by Joseph A. Burns (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (c2003), by Jay M. Pasachoff (PDF files at Harvard)
• A New Sun: The Solar Results from Skylab (1979), by John A. Eddy, ed. by Rein Ise (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet (ca. 1915), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fundamentals of Stellar Astrophysics (c2003), by George W. Collins (PDF files at Harvard)
• The Virial Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics (c1978), by George W. Collins (PDF files at Harvard)
• Stars and Atoms (c1927), by Arthur Stanley Eddington (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Stars (New York: Review of Reviews Company, 1910), by George F. Chambers (PDF at djm.cc)
• Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903), by Alfred Russel Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at wku.edu)

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