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Someone in ancient Greece decided to look up and go what the @#$% is up there and so astronomy was born and became a part of mathematics
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Nicolaus Copernicus thinks outside of common knowledge like a lunatic and proposes the earth isn't the center of the universe
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Kepler writes books that disproves Plato's theory on how planets move with a more mathematical explanation
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By using his telescope Galileo committed heresy by saying that everything doesn't revolve around the earth. Why wouldn't God make us the center of everything
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While sitting beneath an apple tree just daring an apple to attack. Issac Newton was struck by an apple there for proving objects were attracted to the ground.
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Astronomers Jean Foucault and Armand Fizeau take photos of the sun through a telescope that led other astronomers to do the same with planets and the moon
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The German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild laid the groundwork for the black hole theory
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Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding and that the further away a galaxy is the faster it is moving
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Clyde Tombaugh discovers the wonderful planet, Pluto
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Wernher Von Braun creates the first V2 rocket for use in WW2 the rockets would later be captured and remade by the US and USSR
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A large group of Russian astronomers launches Sputnick into orbit becoming the first satellite above the earth.
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The USA creates NASA prompting many American astronomers to join and help with the space race
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All of the US probes part of the Pioneer project fail while the Russians Luna project brings the first photos of the moon's surface back to earth
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Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit the Earth with John Glenn being the first American in orbit following behind
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Cosmic Microwave Background was discovered as a leftover from the big bang 13 million years ago
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The US finally gets a victory and with Apollo 8 becomes the first to orbit around another celestial body
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Apollo 11 Lands on the moon with Buzz Aldredge and Neil Armstrong conduct a moonwalk as Michael Collins is left behind in the lander
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Russia Launches the Salyut 1 into orbit because they can't reach the moon
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Charles Thomas Bolton produced irrefutable evidence that black holes exist
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Russian probe Venera 9 landed on venus and took photos of the planet's surface
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The Nasa probe Voyager 2 is launched
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Nasa's space flight program comes to a halt after the space shuttle challenger explodes
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IAU drafts a new definition of a planet
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The first photo of a black hole was taken
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The United States creates the space force adding it to their military branch
