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54 years ago #Today, one of the most famous images ever taken was snapped from the orbit of the Moon. Now known as "Earthrise", with modern digital technology, the iconic image -- originally in black and white -- has been remastered ow.ly/Hir130n5JpX
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20 years ago #Today, a strange object designated J002E3 was discovered. It was in a temporary orbit around the Earth. It turned out to be an Apollo 12 rocket stage launched in 1969 that had returned [read more: buff.ly/2NIA6yu]
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#Today is the 222nd anniversary of the discovery of Ceres, the first asteroid found in 1801: the number of observed asteroids in the inner and outer Solar System is now beyond one million bit.ly/1VqmQf1
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74 years ago #Today, the transistor was first demonstrated by Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen to their higher-ups at Bell Laboratories. It has since become the most widely manufactured device in history bit.ly/2kNRLs3 #HappyBirthdayTransistor
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#Today in 1843, the theory of quaternions was born when a sudden thought came to William Rowan Hamilton as he was walking with his wife along the Royal Canal in Dublin, Ireland. It was the fundamental formula: i² = j² = k² = ikj = -1 [read more: buff.ly/3pndnxN]
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Born #Today in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose was mathematician and physicist. He's best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate buff.ly/2kaI0qZ
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10 years ago #Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour had its last flight. Here's a photo captured over Los Angeles, few minutes its landing at LAX buff.ly/2FOzM2j
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46 years ago #Today, this iconic photo was shot at the first Shuttle showing: its name was #Enterprise [read more: bit.ly/2d8WnH5] #StarTrek
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Born 103 years ago #Today, Isaac Asimov was professor of biochemistry, science popularizer and extraordinary sci-fi writer: he wrote more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards buff.ly/2LgN6Pf [portrait by Rowena Morrill: buff.ly/3n85rf1]
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45 years ago #Today, the Shuttle Enterprise made its first free flight piloted by Apollo 13's Fred Haise bit.ly/1U5nZwz
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The 2022 December Solstice, the first day of winter in planet Earth's northern hemisphere and summer in the southern one, is #Today at 21:48 UTC [read more: buff.ly/2A2nwUZ ] [you can see a solstice from space: buff.ly/30ZoaBV]
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This is possibly one of the most awesome pictures taken on the Moon: Jack Schmitt, (the only scientist who practiced geology on another world), with the US flag and the Earth (plus Gene Cernan reflected in his visor), 50 years ago #Today go.nasa.gov/2iU2AYp #Apollo17
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Born #Today in 1815, Ada Lovelace was mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. She is often regarded as the first computer programmer [read more: buff.ly/2Pop1Do]
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21 years ago #Today, astronaut Frank Culbertson was on the International Space Station during Expedition 3 and witnessed the September 11th attacks from space [read more: buff.ly/3hleJE4] #September11
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“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light” ― Alexander Pope #HappyBirthday #IsaacNewton (born 380 years ago #Today) [gif: buff.ly/3JrvMB4]
#Today, #ARASHI Anniversary Tour #5x20FILM #RecordofMemories will be shown in the US. Total of about 1,200 seats in two shows each at three of the #AMCTheatres #DolbyCinema in #NYC, some shows are almost full. Join the enthusiastic local #嵐 fans for the best J-Pop entertainment! twitter.com/AMCTheatres/st…
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Born #Today in 1919, Maurice Hilleman developed over 40 vaccines, among which measles, mumps, hepatitis, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia: an unparalleled record of productivity that saved more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century buff.ly/2o9ChmY
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Born 203 years ago #Today, Léon Foucault was a physicist and he's best known for proving the Earth's rotation with his pendulum, making the discovery at 2 am in the cellar he shared with his mother buff.ly/2MEJlUM
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413 years ago #Today, Galileo Galilei revealed his telescope to a group of Venetian lawmakers included the Doge bit.ly/2vokIOB
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Born #Today in 1908, Mary G. Ross was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed, remembered for her work on aerospace design and design concepts for interplanetary space travel [read more: buff.ly/2OX5Gtd]
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50 years ago #Today, the crew of Apollo 17 took the iconic "Blue Marble" photo. The last time human eyes saw this amazing view from a spacecraft go.nasa.gov/2joIFBx