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2002: On 24 August 2002, the Integral satellite arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a trip from the ESA test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.The satellite, shipped in two separate ...
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1822: On 25 August 1822, Sir William Herschel died.
Herschel, whose original name was Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, was a German-born English astronomer, the founder of sidereal astronomy, the systematic observation of the sky.
Along with his sister Caroline, he discovered the planet Uranus, hypothesised that nebulae are composed of stars, and developed a theory of stellar evolution.
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1966: On 23 August 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the Moon.The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of ...
22 August
1989: On 22 August 1989, it was discovered that the planet Neptune had a ring system.Voyager 2 had taken images of Neptune on 20 August 1989, five days before its ...
21 August
1995: On 21 August 1995, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died.An Indian-born astrophysicist, he was a Nobel Laureate in 1983. The term Chandrasekhar's limit shows that those stars which retain an end-of-life mass ...
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