In 1901, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera recovered a corroded lump of bronze from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck; scans later showed it was a geared device built to predict eclipses

• (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons)"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another," said Plato.
• But even as the skies above us have changed over centuries, the stars have continued to hold the same fascination for those seeking to understand the universe.
• There are some discoveries that do not immediately reveal to us the extent of what they hold within them, lying quietly beneath layers of dust and corrosion until someone curious enough comes along and happens look a little closer.