30 August
1844: On 30 August 1844, Francis Baily died.Baily was a British astronomer who detected the phenomenon called Baily's beads during a total eclipse of the Sun on 15 May 1836. ...
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1979: On 31 August 1979, Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collided with the Sun. This was the first recorded instance of a comet hitting the Sun. The energy released by the event was about equal to one million hydrogen bombs.
Since its launch, the ESA SOHO spacecraft has seen many more comets hit the Sun.
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29 August
1965: On 29 August 1965, astronaut Gordon Cooper in orbit 160 kilometres above Earth aboard the NASA spacecraft Gemini 5 held a conversation with aquanaut M. Scott Carpenter in Sealab ...
28 August
1789: On 28 August 1789, Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus.Enceladus is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. It reflects almost 100 percent of the sunlight that strikes ...
27 August
1962: On 27 August 1962, the NASA Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched sending it on a three-and-a-half month flight to Venus. The first spacecraft to fly by another planet, Mariner ...
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