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From the History Archives with a Wisconsin tie-in for your consideration:
On this date in history (August 20th), a photograph was taken that held a secret for more than two decades.
At the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, astronomers captured an image of a tiny, faint dot of light among the stars on August 20, 1909. 🔭
At the time, the photograph was filed away, its true significance completely unknown. The dot was just another speck in a crowded field of celestial objects.
It was considered an unremarkable image, one of many taken in the ongoing effort to map the night sky.
It wasn't until 1930 that an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, officially discovered the planet we would come to know as Pluto.
After his discovery, astronomers began looking back through old photographic plates from other observatories.
They found that the faint dot of light photographed at Yerkes 21 years earlier was, in fact, the very same celestial body. They ...