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Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931281 07/17/19 09:37 AM 07/17/19 09:37 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 2000 - July 16th - the first pair of the ESA Cluster satellite fleet lifted off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Cluster is a set of four spacecraft flying in formation around Earth, relaying the most detailed ever information about how the solar wind affects our planet in three dimensions. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931282 07/17/19 09:41 AM 07/17/19 09:41 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1894 - July 17th - Belgian astronomer and physicist Georges LemaÃ®tre was born. LemaÃ®tre made the first definitive formulation of the idea of an expanding universe, and what was to become known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931283 07/17/19 09:45 AM 07/17/19 09:45 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1850 - July 17th - John Adams Whipple took the first stellar photograph. The photo was of the star Vega, taken at the Harvard College Observatory in the USA. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931284 07/18/19 02:27 PM 07/18/19 02:27 PM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1921 - July 18th - NASA astronaut John Glenn was born. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. He had a distinguished military career before becoming an astronaut, and was a US senator afterwards. In 1998 he took part in a space shuttle mission, making him oldest person ever to go into space. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931287 07/19/19 09:29 AM 07/19/19 09:29 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1921 - July 19th - Edward Pickering was born. Pickering was the director of Harvard College Observatory who hired the women assistants (computers), and who modernized the observatory's work in astronomy by the use of photography. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931289 07/20/19 07:14 AM 07/20/19 07:14 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1969 - July 20th - Apollo 11 astronauts became the first humans to set foot on another world. Neil Armstrong, followed by Buzz Aldrin, stepped out of their lander and walked on the Moon, taking photographs, collecting rocks and setting up experiments. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931292 07/21/19 06:34 AM 07/21/19 06:34 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1976 - July 20th - NASA's Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to land successfully on Mars and perform its mission. Part of its mission was a biology experiment whose purpose was to look for evidence of life. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931293 07/21/19 06:36 AM 07/21/19 06:36 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1620 - July 21st - French astronomer Jean Picard was born. Picard collaborated and corresponded with many fellow scientists, including Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Ole RÃ¸mer, and Giovanni Cassini, amongst others. He was a founding member of the French Academy of Sciences. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931295 07/22/19 05:55 AM 07/22/19 05:55 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1784 - July 22nd - German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel was born. Bessel was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

Re: 2019: On this day . . . [Re: Mona - Astronomy] #931297 07/23/19 09:01 AM 07/23/19 09:01 AM
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Mona - Astronomy OP BellaOnline Editor Stone Age Human Joined: May 2010 Posts: 8,481 United Kingdom	On this day in 1928 - July 23rd - American astronomer Vera Rubin was born. Rubin's pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates uncovered a discrepancy between the predictions and the observations. This was early evidence for the existence of dark matter. Mona Evans For news, activities, pictures and more, sign up to the Astronomy Newsletter! http://www.bellaonline.com/newsletter/astronomy

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