27 November
1875: On 27 November 1875, Richard Christopher Carrington died.Carrington was a British astronomer who, by observing the motions of sunspots, discovered the equatorial acceleration of the Sun; i.e., that it ...
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1964: On 28 November 1964, the NASA Mariner 4 spacecraft gave scientists their first glimpse of Mars at close range.
Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration and represented the first successful fly-by of the planet Mars. A sister ship, Mariner 3, was launched three weeks earlier than Mariner 4, but was lost when the launch vehicle's nose fairing failed to jettison.
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26 November
1895: On 26 November 1895, Bertil Lindblad was born.Lindblad was a Swedish astronomer who contributed greatly to the theory of galactic structure and motion and to the methods of determining ...
25 November
1895: On 25 November 1895, Claude-Louis Mathieu was born.Mathieu was a French astronomer who worked on the determination of the distances of the stars. He began his career as an ...
24 November
1639: On 24 November 1639, Jeremiah Horrocks, an English astronomer and clergyman, measured a transit of Venus, the first ever to be observed.Applying Kepler's prediction that in 1631, Venus would ...
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