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NASA reports that July 2016 was the hottest single month in recorded history (going back to 1880), at 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit (0.84 degrees Celsius) above the 1950-1980 global average. [226] NASA confirms that fracking is responsible for a huge methane hot spot in the United States. [227] [228]
16 April 2016: First inflatable space habitat. [note 5] USA (Bigelow Aerospace) BEAM [69] 15 September 2017: First spacecraft to enter the atmosphere of Saturn. USA (NASA) ESA Italy (ASI) Cassini–Huygens [70] 19 October 2017: First known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. USA (Haleakalā Observatory) Oumuamua: 21 ...
March 31, 2016 23:41:55 Mercury 38' north of Uranus 8.3° East April 22, 2016 14:17:27 Venus 52' south of Uranus 11.7° West May 13, 2016 20:49:07 Mercury 26' south of Venus 6.5° West July 16, 2016 17:39:09 Mercury 32' north of Venus 10.9° East August 25, 2016 17:52:42 Mars 4°23' south of Saturn 97° East August 27, 2016 04:57:57 Mercury
Sagan goes on to extend the comparison in terms of surface area, explaining that if the Cosmic Calendar were scaled to the size of a football field, then "all of human history would occupy an area the size of [his] hand". [3] A similar analogy used to visualize the geologic time scale and the history of life on Earth is the Geologic Calendar.
2020 — On July 19, 2020, after a 20-year-long survey, astrophysicists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey published the largest, most detailed 3D map of the universe so far, fill a gap of 11 billion years in its expansion history, and provide data which supports the theory of a flat geometry of the universe and confirms that different regions ...
c. 16th century BCE – Mesopotamian cosmology has a flat, circular Earth enclosed in a cosmic ocean. [1]c. 15th–11th century BCE – The Rigveda of Hinduism has some cosmological hymns, particularly in the late book 10, notably the Nasadiya Sukta which describes the origin of the universe, originating from the monistic Hiranyagarbha or "Golden Egg".
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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 ...