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Elizabeth Cocking
Nov 1, 20192 min read
In this month: November
27th November 1783 The first reference to black holes is mentioned by John Michell, an English natural philosopher, in a paper for the...
Elizabeth Cocking
Sep 30, 20192 min read
In this month: October
EVENTS 31st October 1992 Pope John Paul II pardons Galileo for his views. The Catholic church condemned Galileo in 1633 for his...
Elizabeth Cocking
Aug 31, 20192 min read
In this month: September
26th September 1905 Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity is published. It is the generally accepted and experimentally confirmed...
Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 18, 20192 min read
Did you know? The Apollo missions
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon with a few little known facts of the Apollo missions. Where...
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
May 5, 20191 min read
Did you know? Royal Greenwich Observatory
This month we feature the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Prime Meridian – Where East meets West The Prime Meridian is arbitrary and...
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