Astronomy Milestones

Astronomy Milestones




  •    583 BC        :     First Prediction of the eclipse of the sun
  •    130BC         :     Hipparchus calculates distance and size of moon
  •    AD 1543      :     Coppernicus shows that the sun is at the centre of the solarsystem
  •    1609             :     Johannes Kepler describes laws of planetary motion
  •    1610            :     Galileo Galilei discovers moons of jupiter
  •    1655            :     Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, moon of Saturn
  •    1668            :      Issac Newton build first reflecting telescope
  •    1687            :      Issac Newton publishes theories of motions of planets , etc
  •    1705            :      Edmond Halley predicts return of comet
  •    1671-84      :      Giovanni Cassini Discovers four moons of Saturn
  •    1774            :      Charles Messier compiles star catalogue
  •    1781            :       William Herschel discovers 7th planet, uranus
  •    1801           :        First asteriod, Ceres, discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi
  •    1846           :       Johan Galle and Urbain Le Verrier discover 8th planet Neptune
  •    1787-89     :       Herschel finds two moons of uranus and two of saturn
  •    1839-40      :       First photographs of moon
  •    1894            :      Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, founded
  •    1905           :       Einstein's special theory of Relativity first proposed
  •    1908           :       Giant and Dwarf stars described
  •    1923           :       Galaxies beyond Milky Way proved
  •    1927           :      Big Bang theory first proposed
  •    1930           :      Pluto, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
  •    1959           :      First photographs of the far side of the moon by Soviet satellite Luna 3
  •    1961           :      First Quasars discovered
  •    1967           :      First pulsars identified
  •    1971           :      Black Hole first detected
  •    1973           :      Skylab space laboratory launched
  •    1976           :      Rings of Uranus are discovered
  •    1977           :      Voyager deep space probes launched
  •    1980           :       Voyager 1 explores Saturn
  •    1978           :      Space probes Pioneer 1 and 2 reach Venus
  •    1985-89      :      Voyager 2 discovers moons of Uranus and Neptune
  •    1994           :       Comet Shoemaker-Levy Observed crashing into Jupiter
  •    1995           :      Galileo probe reaches Jupiter
  •    1997           :       Mars Pathfinder lands
  •    1997           :      Cassini probe launched to Saturn
  •    1998           :      International space station construction starts
  •    1999           :      Chanda X-Ray observatory Launched
  •    2003           :      Galileo probe deliberately crash-landed on Jupiter
  •    2006           :      New Horizons space probe launched to pluto

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