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December 16 – The Beethoven Burst (GRB 991216) is one of the most powerful detected Gamma-ray bursts. NASA loses two Mars probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander. The Subaru 8.3 m and Gemini North 8.1 m reflecting telescopes open at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. The Cetus Dwarf galaxy is discovered.
First space walk/extra-vehicular activity (Alexei Leonov). USSR Voskhod 2: March 1965: First crewed spacecraft to change orbit. USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [17] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [17] 15 December 1965
9 May: A cubic millimetre of the human brain is mapped at nanoscale resolution by a team at Google 30 May: NASA reports the discovery of the most distant known galaxy. 9 May. A record annual increase in atmospheric CO 2 is reported from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, with a jump of 4.7 parts per million (ppm) compared to a year earlier. [285]
Back in 2017, the discovery of a large cylindrical object floating through space ignited the imaginations of UFO enthusiasts across the globe. 'Oumuamua, as it’s now known, didn’t behave like ...
1924: Edwin Hubble: the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies; 1925: Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics) 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe; 1927: Werner Heisenberg: Uncertainty principle (Quantum ...
Most notably, scientists detected a "chirp" from gravitational waves produced by a collision between two black holes. Hypothesized by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago, this is a landmark ...
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
2016 was an incredible year for discoveries in space, but you’ve probably even forgotten some of the amazing things we now know.