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2003: On 4 September 2003, astronomers released an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Amid a backdrop of far-off galaxies, the dusty spiral, ...
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1977: On 5 September 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 from Cape Canaveral on board a Titan-Centaur rocket. Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored all the giant planets of the outer Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, 48 of their moons and the unique systems of rings and magnetic fields of those planets.
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1976: On 3 September 1976, the unmanned US spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took its first pictures of the surface.Its twin, Viking I, had been the first to ...
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1908: On 2 September 1908, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kozyrev was born.Kozyrev was a Russian astronomer who claimed to have discovered volcano-like activity on the Moon. His sightings of apparent gaseous emissions ...
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1902: On 1 September 1902, Dirk Brouwer was born.Brouwer was a Dutch-born US astronomer and geophysicist known for his achievements in celestial mechanics, especially for his pioneering application of high-speed ...
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