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2001: On 22 August 2001, Sir Fred Hoyle died. A British astronomer and founder of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, he was best known for his contributions to knowledge ...
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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 above a certain limit, collapse. This discovery was contrary to the thinking at the time which assumed that all stars ended their lives as white dwarfs and it subsequently led to the discovery of neutron stars and black holes.
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19 August
2000: On 19 August 2000, the second payload of the ESA's Cluster mission was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.Cluster is a collection of four spacecraft flying ...
18 August
1999: On 18 August 1999, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft said goodbye to Earth as it completed a highly accurate pass by our planet and swung away towards its encounter with ...
17 August
1877: On 17 August 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, a moon of Mars. He also discovered the second moon of Mars, Deimos, in the same year.He named ...
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