9 November
1934: On 9 November 1934, American astronomer Carl Sagan was born.Sagan contributed to the discovery that the atmosphere of Venus is prohibitively hot and dense, and found evidence that Saturn's ...
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1861: On 10 November 1861, Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes was born.
Innes was a Scottish astronomer who was invited by David Gill to the Cape Observatory, South Africa in 1894. He became a successful binary star observer there with 1628 discoveries.
His most famous discovery, in 1915, was Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth after the Sun. It is a faint star near the binary star Alpha Centauri, which is so far south it is not visible from most of the northern hemisphere.
He was also the first to see the Daylight Comet of 1910.
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8 November
1656: On 8 November 1656, Sir Edmond Halley was born.Halley was an English scientist who calculated that the comet of 1682 was periodic. Using historical records, his own observations, and ...
7 November
1918: On 7 November 1918, US rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform.Goddard began work for the Army ...
6 November
2003: On 6 November 2003, it was announced that the massive solar X-ray flare which occurred on 4 November 2003 was, at best estimate, an X28.X-class flares are big; they ...
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