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Spicospina is a genus of ground-dwelling frogs in the family Myobatrachidae. It is monotypic , being represented by the single species, Spicospina flammocaerulea , also known as the sunset frog . First discovered in the year 1994, it is native to south-western Western Australia . [ 2 ]
In 1868 Jules Janssen and Norman Lockyer discovered a new element in the Sun unknown on Earth, helium, which currently comprises 23.8% of the mass in the solar photosphere. [34] As of today, spectroscopes are an important tool to know about the chemical composition of the celestial bodies.
These satellites were the first celestial objects that were confirmed to orbit an object other than the Sun or Earth. Galileo saw Io and Europa as a single point of light on 7 January 1610; they were seen as separate bodies the following night. [11] Callisto: Jupiter IV o: 8 January 1610 p: 13 March 1610 Io: Jupiter I Europa: Jupiter II 1650s
The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day 'tropical' or 'solar' year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. The reform advanced the date by 10 days: Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 ...
The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which sent two bullfrogs into orbit on November 9, 1970, for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
They’d discovered a new species: Scinax juruena, or the Juruena snouted tree frog. Juruena snouted tree frogs are considered “small,” reaching just over 1 inch in length, researchers said.
It is generally believed that the first astronomers were priests, and that they understood celestial objects and events to be manifestations of the divine, hence early astronomy's connection to what is now called astrology. A 32,500-year-old carved ivory mammoth tusk could contain the oldest known star chart (resembling the constellation Orion ...