While examining photo plates of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in 1967, British astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge noticed something peculiar in the constellation Camelopardalis. A galaxy? If so, it ...

__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who ...

The sky is full of really weird stuff. Many of the strangest objects are galaxies - so numerous in the cosmos - that show unusual forms. One of these great objects lies in the constellation ...