Stepping Into the Past, Peering at the Stars: The Timeless Magic of the Yerkes Observatory

Stepping Into the Past, Peering at the Stars: The Timeless Magic of the Yerkes Observatory

Have you ever stepped into a building and felt the weight of the past hit you all at once? At Yerkes Observatory, touching the past of 1897 is closer than most might imagine. Walking through the halls of the Observatory feels like following in the footsteps of some of history’s greatest minds: Carl Sagan did his graduate work at Yerkes, and Nancy Grace Roman, one of the early women of astronomy, also worked at Yerkes and later became NASA’s firs…