On March 21, 2013, European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Planck spacecraft revealed the most detailed map ever created of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB, CMBR).
Today’s (March 21) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
On March 21, 1864, the Italian mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) discovered Saturn’s moons Tethys and Dione. Cassini used a refractor telescope with an aperture of 108 mm to make this observation.
Today’s (March 21) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
On March 20, 1916, Albert Einstein sent a paper to Annalen der Physik, one of the oldest scientific journals on physics which has been published since 1799. The study was titled “Die Grundlage der Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie”, translated as “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity.” It was the first comprehensive overview of the final version of Einstein’s theory of general relativity after several expositions in preliminary versions.
Today’s (March 20) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
On March 19, 1986, IBM.com and sun.com domains were registered. These domains are the 11th and 12th oldest registered domains in history.
Today’s (March 19) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped out from his Voskhod 2 spacecraft into the void of space and performed the first spacewalk in the history of space exploration.
Today’s (March 18) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
March 16, 2022, was a huge milestone for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): the alignment process of the telescope’s mirrors has finally been completed successfully and it produced the first unified, aligned, and bright image of a single star. NASA announces JWST’s optics are working as expected. The space telescope was reported to be “fully focused”.
Humans around the world have long displayed a thirst for power, sometimes in a literal sense. Powering virtually every aspect of daily life, the origin of our electricity is thus one of the biggest talking points in modern times. Today, approximately 84% of the world’s energy needs come from oil, gas, and coal – aka fossil fuels.
On March 13, 1986, European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Giotto spacecraft made the closest approach to Halley’s Comet at a distance of 596 kilometers (370 miles).
Today’s (March 13) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
On March 12, 1989, the English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee sent a document to his colleagues at CERN titled “Information Management: A Proposal”. This proposal concerned the management of general information about the particle accelerators and experiments at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In the proposal, Berners-Lee discussed the problems of information loss about complex evolving systems and suggested a solution based on a distributed hypertext system, which eventually became the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing.
Today’s (March 12) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.
Covid-19, the highly-contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020.
Today’s (March 11) story of what happened this day in Science, Technology, Astronomy, and Space Exploration history.