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The Most Significant Events in Astronomy

By samanthamatmor
  • 20,000 BCE

    Big Bang

    Big Bang
    Sometime between 13 and 20 billions years ago was an explotion that create the center of the universe
  • 2000 BCE

    First Solar-lunar Calendar

    First Solar-lunar Calendar
    In Egypt, Mesopotamia it was create the first solar-lunar calendar
  • Sep 6, 1120

    Observatory

    Observatory
    The construction of the first observatory in Cario, Egypt
  • Sep 13, 1543

    Heleocentric Theory

    Heleocentric Theory
    Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory of the Universe.

  • Reflecting telescope

    Reflecting telescope
    The first reflecting telescope was built by Newton.

  • Red Spot

    Red Spot
    The Great Red Spot on Jupiter becomes prominent.
    1905 A.D. California

  • Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

    Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
    Albert Aenstein introduce a special relative theory

  • Pluto

    Pluto
    Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

  • Radio Waves

    Radio Waves
    Karl Jansky discovers radio waves

  • First radio telescope

    First radio telescope
    the first radio telescope

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    first object to orbit the Earth, launched by the Russians.

  • Satellite of U.S.A.

    Satellite of U.S.A.
    Explorer 1 launched. This was the first U.S. satellite to orbit the Earth.

  • Uranus Rings

    Uranus Rings
    Discovery of Uranus' rings

  • Space Statin

    Space Statin
    Construction begins on the International Space Station.

  • Water in Mars

    Water in Mars
    they found water in Mars