29 November
1866: On 29 November 1866, Ernest Brown was born.Brown was a British astronomer who devoted his career to the theory of the Moon's motion and constructing accurate lunar tables. He ...
31 DEC. 2003
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1609: On 30 November 1609, Galileo Galilei used his telescope for the first time to study the Moon.
Galileo, at that time in Padua, Italy, turned his telescope toward the Moon, noted the irregularities of the crescent face, and made a drawing to record his discoveries. He made at least five more drawings of the Moon over the next eighteen days, prepared careful watercolour sketches from these drawings, and then selected four of these to be engraved for publication in the following March.
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28 November
1964: On 28 November 1964, the NASA Mariner 4 spacecraft gave scientists their first glimpse of Mars at close range.Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used ...
27 November
1875: On 27 November 1875, Richard Christopher Carrington died.Carrington was a British astronomer who, by observing the motions of sunspots, discovered the equatorial acceleration of the Sun; i.e., that it ...
26 November
1895: On 26 November 1895, Bertil Lindblad was born.Lindblad was a Swedish astronomer who contributed greatly to the theory of galactic structure and motion and to the methods of determining ...
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