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The major events in astronomy

By Rodolfo445
  • New Evidence
    2000 BCE

    New Evidence

    New evidnce found for water on Mars
  • Hubble space telescope
    1990 BCE

    Hubble space telescope

    Hubble space telescope put into orbit from space shuttle Discovery
  • Pioneer 10
    1972 BCE

    Pioneer 10

    The U.S. launches pioneer 10,the first satellite destined for Jupiter
  • Armstrong and Aldrin
    1969 BCE

    Armstrong and Aldrin

    Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the moon as part of apollo 11mission
  • John Glenn
    1962 BCE

    John Glenn

    John Glenn becomes the first American to Orbit Earth
  • Yuri Gagarin
    1961 BCE

    Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space !
  • Explorer 1 Launched
    1957 BCE

    Explorer 1 Launched

    This was the first U.S. satellite to orbit the Earth
  • SPUTNIK
    1957 BCE

    SPUTNIK

    The first object to orbit the Earth lunched by de Russians
  • Galaxies exist outside The Milky Way Galaxy
    1923 BCE

    Galaxies exist outside The Milky Way Galaxy

    Hubble shows that galaxies exist outside the Milky Way Galaxy
  • First Asteroid
    1801 BCE

    First Asteroid

    Piazzi discovers de firts asteroid Ceres
  • The discovery of Uranus
    1781 BCE

    The discovery of Uranus

    The discover of Uranus by Herschel
  • 1668 BCE

    The first reflecting telescope

    The first reflecting telescope was built by Newton
  • Galileo Galilei
    1609 BCE

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo use telescope for astronomical purpouses.
    He discovers The Milky Way
  • Copernicus (Heliocentric Theory)
    1543 BCE

    Copernicus (Heliocentric Theory)

    Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory of the Universe
  • The Bing Bang
    13 BCE

    The Bing Bang

    The bing bang probably ocurred
    13 billion ago