5 November
1992: On 5 November 1992, Jan Hendrik Oort died.Oort was a Dutch physicist and astronomer, one of the most important figures in 20th-century efforts to understand the nature of the ...
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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 are major events that can trigger radio blackouts around the whole world and long-lasting radiation storms in the upper atmosphere.
This is a new ‘Number One’ X-ray flare for the record books, the most powerful in recorded observational history.
1638: On 6 November 1638, Scottish mathematician, astronomer and inventor of the reflecting telescope, James Gregory was born in Aberdeen.
Gregory was the first to investigate converging number series, which have an infinite number of terms but a finite sum. He made important contributions to the development of the calculus, although some of his best work remained virtually unknown until long after his death.
In 1660 he published his Optica Promota, in which he described the first practical reflecting (Gregorian) telescope. Light reflected from a concave elliptical secondary mirror is brought to a focus just behind a hole in the primary mirror. It was superceded by the Newtonian and Cassegrain telescopes. Gregory also introduced estimation of stellar distances by photometric methods.
1572: A supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia.
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4 November
2003: On 4 November 2003, sunspot region 10486 released a massive solar flare, bigger than anything yet seen in recorded observational history.The flare saturated the X-ray detectors on several monitoring ...
3 November
1973: On 3 November 1973, Mariner 10 was launched.Mariner 10 used Venus as a gravity assist to enable it to reach Mercury in 1974. During the fly-by, the spacecraft returned ...
2 November
2000: On 2 November 2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first permanent residents of the International Space Station, at the start of their four-month mission.After their ...
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