Tapestries
Description: This illustration represents the stars of Earth's polar region, including the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Polaris (the North Star) is located in the top-center (The last star in the tail of Ursa Minor (part of which is also known as the Little Dipper) Also visible is a large portion of the constellation Draco.
Description: This illustration represents the Pleiades, a star cluster located in the constellation Taurus. This famous asterism was of mythic significance to cultures throughout the ancient world, and has gone by many names, including: Mǎo (Chinese), Thurayya (Arabic), Krittika (Hindu), Messier 45 (M45), Melotte 22, and of course, the Pleiades (the seven divine daughters of Pleione and Atlas) in Greek.
Description: This illustration shown shows a collection of fossils of the first known macroscopic, multicellular organisms, collectively known as the "Ediacaran Biota". The organisms of the Edaicaran Biota are enigmatic, and their relation to living organisms remains a mystery. Among the organisms depicted here are many which will be well known to paleontologists, such as Charnia, Ernietta, Cloudina and more! These organisms are depicted in three colors, reflecting the three "assemblages" into which paleontologists typically divide the ediacaran biota: the Avalon assemblage, the White Sea (or Ediacara type) assemblage, and the Nama assemblage.
