22 June
1999: On 22 June 1999, a European team of scientists unveiled a discovery about our Sun - they had found a way of studying the hidden far side, allowing them ...
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1901: On 23 June 1901, Otto Heckmann was born.
Heckmann was a German astronomer noted for measuring stellar positions and his studies of relativity and cosmology. He also made notable contributions to statistical mechanics.
Heckmann organised an international programme to photograph and chart the positions of the stars in the Northern Hemisphere, which led to the publication in 1975 of the third German Astronomical Society catalogue, the Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog (AGK3).
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21 June
On 21 or 22 June every year, the 'solstice' occurs.For those who live in the northern hemisphere of Earth, on 21/22 June every year is the summer solstice, the year’s ...
20 June
1976: On 20 June 1976, NASA's Viking 1 probe, launched from Cape Canaveral, went into Mars orbit. The lander set down on the western slopes of Chryse Planitia a month ...
19 June
2003: On 19 June 2003, the high-gain antenna (HGA) on ESA's SOHO spacecraft suffered a malfunction in its pointing mechanism - a stuck motor drive would not permit the antenna ...
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