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Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 31, 20214 min read
In this month: August 2021
15th August 1977 The Wow! signal is received by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. The original record, preserved by...
Toner Stevenson
Jul 9, 20211 min read
The Ancient Discovery that the Moon Shines with Reflected Light
Monday 6th September 2021 6:30 to 8pm Presented by Rick Benitez. Rick Benitez is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of...
Elizabeth Cocking
Feb 1, 20212 min read
In this Month: February
4th February 1600 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague. Kepler arrived at Tycho’s new observatory, Benatek...
Elizabeth Cocking
Dec 31, 20203 min read
In this month: January
Happy New Year! Elizabeth Cocking continues this astronomical blog post sequence in 2023. Each month she looks back on astronomical...
Elizabeth Cocking
Sep 30, 20203 min read
In this month: October
NASA becomes operational (1958) ; Luna 3 photographs the far side of the Moon (1959) : the Parker solar probe approaches the Sun (2018)
Elizabeth Cocking
Jul 31, 20204 min read
In this month: August
13th August 1898 The asteroid Eros is discovered by the German astronomer Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, and...
Elizabeth Cocking
May 31, 20203 min read
In this month: June
2 June 1966 Surveyor 1, the first of the Surveyor robotic spacecraft, soft lands on the Moon. It was the first American spacecraft to...
Elizabeth Cocking
Mar 31, 20202 min read
In this month: April
12 April 1633 The inquisition of Galileo by the Roman Catholic church begins. He was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to...
Elizabeth Cocking
Mar 1, 20203 min read
In this month: March
7 March 1831 The Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal charter from King William IV. The society was founded in 1820 as the...
Elizabeth Cocking
Dec 31, 20192 min read
In this month: January
7 January 1610 Galileo discovers four moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. Looking at what he thought were a group of stars, he noted the...
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