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On this day in 1851 - January 19th – Jacobus Kapteyn was born.

He was a Dutch astronomer best known for his studies of the Milky Way. He discovered evidence for galactic rotation.


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On this day in 2006 - January 19th – NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was launched.

New Horizons has studied Pluto and its moons, and is now on its way to another Kuiper Belt object.


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On this day in 2014 - January 20th - ESA's Rosetta spacecraft awoke from a deep space hibernation of over thirty months.

Rosetta historic mission saw her rendezvous with a comet, put a lander on its surface, and follow the comet as it went around the Sun.


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On this day in 1930 - January 20th - Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was born.

The second man to step onto the Moon has been an astronaut, Air Force combat pilot, aerial gunnery instructor and flight commander. His doctoral thesis at MIT was on techniques for manned orbital rendezvous.


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On this day in 1573 - January 20th - Simon Marius was born.

Marius was a German astronomer who claimed he had seen Jupiter's moons before Galileo. Galileo's documentation was more extensive and published first, but the suggestions Marius made for naming the four large moons were eventually adopted.

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On this day in 2003 - January 22nd - Pioneer 10's last signal was received.

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and later the first to pass the orbit of Pluto. Originally designed for a 21-month mission, it lasted more than 30 years.


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On this day in 1736 – January 25th – Joseph Lagrange was born.

Lagrange was one of the great mathematicians of the 18th century. His work included major contributions to physics and astronomy. He's best known now for his identification of equilibrium points between the gravity of the Earth and that the Sun. NASA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) sits at one of these points.

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On this day in 1983 – January 25th – the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) was launched.

IRAS, a joint project of NASA (USA), NIVR (Netherlands) and SERC (UK), was the first space telescope to carry out a survey of the whole night sky at infrared wavelengths.


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On this day in 1994 – January 25th – Clementine was launched.

Over a period of nearly four months the US spacecraft Clementine made scientific observations of the Moon. In addition, Clementine was used as a test of the effects on sensors and components of extended exposure to space.


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On this day in 2004 – January 25th – the Mars rover Opportunity landed on the red planet.

The mission was designed to last 90 Martian days - Opportunity is still operational.


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