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...
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Elizabeth Cocking
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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...
Elizabeth Cocking
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
In this month: November
27th November 1783 The first reference to black holes is mentioned by John Michell, an English natural philosopher, in a paper for the...
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