Science1803
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Time line 1803
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Katie Bouman led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes,Apollo 11 was a historic U.S. spaceflight in the first human landing on the Moon, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin becoming the first to walk on the lunar surfaceEdwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way.Johann Gottfried Galle was the first to observe planet NeptuneIsaac Newton discovered gravityGalileo Galilei made a discovery of Jupiter's four largest moons.Nicolaus Copernicus forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun.Muhammad al-Khwarizmi wrote 116 tables filled with astronomical, calendrical, and astrological data based on hindu and greek scourcesClaudius Ptolemy developed a geocentric solar system which placed the “stellar” universe on a crystal sphere. Earth stood still and the Sun orbited Earth, producing our day and night cycles.Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.Babylonian astronomers had worked out a coordinate system using the ecliptic, the region of the sky the sun and planets move through.Plato significantly influenced ancient astronomy by proposing a geocentric model with a sphere Earth at the center surrounded by crystalline spheres carrying the sun, moon,stars, and planets.Mayan astronomers observed and documented astronomical events, including the cycle of the Moon's rising and setting
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