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Elizabeth Cocking
May 31, 20192 min read
In this month: June
13th June 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first human-made object to pass outside Pluto's orbit and leave the solar system. It was the...
Elizabeth Cocking
Apr 30, 20192 min read
In this month: May
2nd May 1780 Sir William Herschel discovers the first binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris, also named Alula Australis, in the constellation of...
Elizabeth Cocking
Mar 31, 20192 min read
In this month: April
15th April 1970 Humans travel the furthest in space when the Apollo 13 crew reach 400,171 km from Earth in an attempt to return to Earth...
Elizabeth Cocking
Mar 2, 20192 min read
In this month - March
25th March 1655 Titan, Saturn’s largest moon was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Titan is considered the most...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jan 31, 20192 min read
In this month - February
13 February 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating the Copernican theory, which...
Elizabeth Cocking
Dec 31, 20182 min read
In this Month - January
Happy New Year! 24th January 1986 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. At its closest the spacecraft came to within 81,500 kilometres of Uranus's...
Elizabeth Cocking
Dec 2, 20182 min read
In this month - December
6th December 1882 The Transit of Venus, the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken place eight...
Elizabeth Cocking
Oct 31, 20182 min read
In this month - November
28 November 1967 The first pulsar is discovered by Jocelyn Bell (Image above taken 19 July 2018). Working as a research student at...
Elizabeth Cocking
Aug 31, 20182 min read
In this month - September
Its all about astronomy - 'In this month' blog posts feature significant events which happened and people born during the month who
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