12 November
1916: On 12 November 1916, Percival Lowell died.Lowell was an American astronomer who predicted the existence of the planet Pluto and initiated the search that ended in its discovery.Lowell was ...
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1998: On 13 November 1998, the discovery of the 1000th pulsar in our galaxy was announced by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK.
The university used the 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, on which a 'multibeam' receiver was installed in early 1997. This allowed astronomers from Europe, Australia and the United States to find pulsars much faster than before. On average, they found a new pulsar in every hour of observing.
The multibeam receiver consists of 13 hexagonally arranged receivers that allow simultaneous observations.
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11 November
1572: On 11 November 1572, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe first observed a 'new star', (B Cassiopeiae or Nova Cassiopeiae 1572), one of the few recorded supernovae in the Milky ...
10 November
1861: On 10 November 1861, Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes was born.Innes was a Scottish astronomer who was invited by David Gill to the Cape Observatory, South Africa in 1894. He ...
9 November
1934: On 9 November 1934, American astronomer Carl Sagan was born.Sagan contributed to the discovery that the atmosphere of Venus is prohibitively hot and dense, and found evidence that Saturn's ...
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