[Spiral Nebula]
E.E. Barnard
1899
Lantern slide
Edward Emerson Barnard Papers, Vanderbilt University Special Collections
Photograph taken by E.E. Barnard on August 11, 1899 of the HI53 Pegasi spiral galaxy. Barnard called it a spiral nebula because before the 1920’s, it was thought that these nebula were part of the Milky Way and not a separate galaxy. This photo was taken with the Crossley Reflector of the Lick Observatory.