Astronomy Timelime
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Updated: 5 Sep 2017
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Created byBryce Hunley
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Ptolemy publishses the Almagest.Hipparchus publishes his work.Antikythera Mechanism in use.Pyramids aligned in accordance with the Pole Star.First star catalogue in China.First recorded supernova.Creation of the Crab Nebula obvserved in China.First Middle Eastern star catalogs.Azophi publishes the Book of Fixed Stars.Large Magellanic Cloud recorded by al-Sufi.Ali ibn Ridwan observes SN 1006.Bede of Jarrow publishes On the Reckoning of Time.Nicholas Copernicus proposes the Heliocentric Model.Galileo observes Jupiter's Moons 1610.Maria Mitchell discovers a comet with a telescope.Edwin Hubble discovers other galaxies and redshift.Spunik I reaches orbit.Explorer I discovers the Van Allen Radiation Belt.Luna III photographs the far side of the moon.First photo of Earth from orbit.First manned space mission Vostok I.First planetary flyby (Venus) Venera I.First solar observatory OSO-I.First Mars flyby Mariner 4.First soft landing on another celestial body (Moon)
First photos from another celestial body.First ultraviolet observatory OAO-IIFirst humans on the MoonFirst robotic return of soil from another celestial body: the Moon: Luna 16First remote controlled vehicle on another celestial body: the Moon: Lunokhod IFirst X-Ray orbital obvservatory: Uhuru NASAFirst soft landing on another planet: Venus: Venera 7First soft landing on Mars: Mars 3First gamma ray observatory: SAS 2First Jupiter flyby: Pioneer 10First Mercury flyby: Mariner 10Cassini-Huygens launched: bound for Saturn.Launch of the Dawn: bound for Vesta and CeresLaunch of the Galileo spacecraft: bound for Jupiter and her moons.Launch of the Juno spacecraft: bound for VenusLaunch of Rosetta: bound for cometRosetta reaches comet 67P
First orbit of a comet by an artificial craft.
First landing on a comet.Launch of the Hubble Space TelescopeJames Web Planned Launch Date
Ocotber 2018Chandra X-ray Observatory is put into orbit. Col. Eileen Collins becomes first woman shuttle commander.New evidence found for water on Mars.Galileo discovers origin of Jupiter's Rings.Mount Wilson Observatory was established for study of the Sun.Rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovskii was born.Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.Periods
The beginning of spectral analysis of stars by Sir William Huggins
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