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On this day in 1512 – March 5th – Gerardus Mercator was born in Rupelmonde, Kruibeke in what is now Belgium.
Mercator was a German-Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer. He created the 1569 world map based on a new projection that represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines - an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
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On this day in 2005 – March 5th – the European Space Agency (ESA) officially inaugurated its first deep space ground station.
The New Norcia facility in Western Australia was the first, but it's since been joined by stations in Spain and Argentina. Deep space tracking stations are essential for missions such as Rosetta and Mars Express.
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On this day in 1787 – March 6th – Joseph Fraunhofer was born in Straubing, Germany.
Fraunhofer was an optician who was known for the quality of his optical glass and excellent telescope objectives. His name is still known today for his discovery of the dark absorption lines - known as Fraunhofer lines - in the Sun's spectrum.
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. On this day in 1937 – March 6th – Valentina Tereshkova was born. in Bol'shoe Maslennikovo, Russia.Tereshkova, the first woman in space, was a Soviet cosmonaut who spent three days orbiting in Vostok 6.
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. On this day in 1792 – March 7th – polymath John Herschel was born in Slough, Berkshire, England.Son of the discoverer of Uranus, John Herschel was one of the 19th century's most distinguished individuals. He was a brilliant mathematician, chemist and astronomer, as well as an accomplished artist, musician and linguist.
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On this day in 1831 – March 7th – King William IV signed a Royal Charter for the Astronomical Society of London, and it assumed the name Royal Astronomical Society.
William IV also agreed to be the Society's Patron; every subsequent British monarch has followed suit.
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. On this day in 1837 – March 7th – Henry Draper was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA.Draper was a doctor, amateur astronomer and pioneer of astrophotography. Following his early death, his wife Anna donated money to Harvard College Observatory to complete his catalogue of stellar spectra. If you see a deep sky object named with an "HD" prefix, it refers to this catalogue.
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On this day in 2009 – March 7th – NASA launched its exoplanet-hunter Kepler.
During its two missions the space telescope found 2700 confirmed exoplanets and 3000 possibles for further investigation.
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The Universerve is huge and ever changing.
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On this day in 1804 – March 8th – American astronomer and telescope maker Alvan Clark was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
In 1846 he founded Alvan Clark & Sons, which made astronomical telescopes and instruments. Notably, the company made the lenses for large refracting telescopes at Lick Observatory and Yerkes Observatory.
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