14 November
1930: On 14 November 1930, Edward H White was born.White was the first US astronaut to walk in space, on board Gemini 4, launched on 3 June 1965. During the ...
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1738: On 15 November 1738, Sir William Herschel was born.
Herschel was a German-born British astronomer. In 1773, he made and began using his first telescope. With it he began a project that would continue for the rest of his life: that of systematically studying the sky. Through this study he discovered the planet Uranus, many new nebulae, clusters of stars and binary stars.
Herschel hypothesised that nebulae are composed of stars, developed a theory of stellar evolution and was the first person to correctly describe the form of our galaxy, the Milky Way. He discovered the Saturnian satellites Mimas and Enceladus and the Uranian satellites Titania and Oberon.
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13 November
1998: On 13 November 1998, the discovery of the 1000th pulsar in our galaxy was announced by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK.The university used the 64-metre Parkes ...
12 November
1916: On 12 November 1916, Percival Lowell died.Lowell was an American astronomer who predicted the existence of the planet Pluto and initiated the search that ended in its discovery.Lowell was ...
11 November
1572: On 11 November 1572, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe first observed a 'new star', (B Cassiopeiae or Nova Cassiopeiae 1572), one of the few recorded supernovae in the Milky ...
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