None today
Comet discoveries:
None today
Today's astronomy anniversaries:
- Discoveries:
- None
- Events:
- 1987 (27 years ago)- Supernova 1987a, the closest supernova for over 400 years, explodes in the Large Magellanic Cloud, killing a few obscure alien civilizations.
- Births:
- 1583 (431 years ago)- Jean-Baptiste Morin, a French astronomer who attempted to solve the longitude problem by calculating the distance of the Moon, is born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France.
- 1928 (86 years ago)- Vasily Lazarev, a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 12 and Soyuz 18a, is born in Poroshino, Russia.
- 1929 (85 years ago)- Jaan Einasto, an Estonian astrophysicist who helped discover the large-scale structure of the universe, is born in Tartu, Estonia.
- 1949 (65 years ago)- Marc Garneau, a Canadian astronaut who was on STS-41 G, STS 77, and STS-97, is born in Quebec City, Canada.
- 1959 (55 years ago)- Clayton Anderson, an American astronaut on STS-117 who participated in ISS expedition 15, is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Deaths:
- 1855 (159 years ago)- Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German astronomer who is responsible for a number of Astronomical contributions, including the prediction of Ceres' orbit after being recently discovered, dies in Göttingen, Germany.
Coming up later today:
It's the middle of the night! What did you expect me to make? Saturn's ring system will be a more extensive article than the usual, and is still under construction.
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