18 February
2004: On 18 February 2004, ESA scientists announced they had seen a super-massive black hole ripping apart a star and consuming a portion of it.
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1473: On 19 February 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born.
Copernicus was the Polish astronomer who proposed that the planets move around the Sun and that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis.
Through this 'heliocentric theory', he became one of the most important figures in the history of scientific thought. He died on 24 May 1543.
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16 February
2004: On 16 February 2004, ESA announced that an international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the Universe.
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