Last year, PPD noted that vintage photographs of outer space were increasingly prized by collectors. Museums are also getting in on the space photography race: Now on view at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan is "Eyes on the Universe: Images from Space Telescopes," which The New York Times calls "a jewel box exhibition of 14 photographs of supernovas, planets, galaxies and other astrophysical objects captured by three telescopes operating in space." Today we also spotlight a complete guide to making deep-sky astrophotography of your own.

  “The Soul of Nature,” the Met’s retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings and watercolors, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. While only five paintings among Friedrich’s enormous output has made their way into US museums, his influence has been huge—in fact, his work was the inspiration for Disney’s Fantasia, as well as countless posters, book covers, and other dorm-room ep...