EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Jones, an electronics engineer, with the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, March 8, 2023. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times)
EditorialA round ebony-framed plaque in gilded pewter, showing the 260 m long front of the Tuileries, Paris, residence of the rulers of France from Louis XV to Napoleon III. Palace is seen from Pont Royal, Pavillion de Flore in foreground. Ebony, pewter (late 1...