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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, author, 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 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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On this day in 1564 – March 9th – German pastor and amateur astronomer David Fabricius was born in Esens.
Along with his son Johannes, David Fabricius discovered Mira, the first known periodic variable star. They also made the first confirmed observations of sunspots.
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. On this day in 1934 – March 9th – Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human in space.Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, a village in Smolensk Oblast, Russia..
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. On this day in 1979 – March 9th – NASA astronomer Linda Morabito discovered evidence of volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io.She found the picture of the first active volcano known outside Earth among the images sent back by Voyager 1.
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. On this day in 1977 – March 10th – rings were discovered around the planet Uranus.The rings were found by a team of astronomers who were using the occultation by Uranus of star SAO 158687 to study the planet's atmosphere..
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