historical anniversaries What happened in the world of astronomy a day like today ? March 12 • 1737 : Galileo s remains are buried in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence next to the largest in Italy . • 1824 : Birth of Gustav Robert Kirchhoff German physicist . He formulated laws relating to electric currents ( Kirchhoff laws ) . His research in radiation physics credited as the creator of the spectral analysis, so knowing the inner constitution of matter. Detected the presence of sodium in the Sun ( 1859 ) , beginning of astrophysics . • 1835 born Canadian astronomer Simon Newcomb , a specialist in celestial mechanics , the precise calculations that a lot of astronomical magnitudes concerning almost all solar system bodies should . First president of the American Astronomical Society and the American Society for Psychical Research. Bruce Medal 1898. • 1871 : German astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther discovers Amalthea ( the fifth satellite of Jupiter) . • 1907 : American astronomer born Dorrit Hoffleit of extensive experience and exemplary love to research. PhD at Harvard under the tutelage of H. Shapley . He directed the Maria Mitchell Observatory ( 1956-1978 ) . Recognized as the author of Yale Catalog of Bright Stars and Near , and co -author with W. van Altena, the Catalogue of Trigonometric parallaxes . He has also compiled a catalog of nebulae 69 . • 1923 : Born Astronaut Walter Schirra American . • 1974: 6 became Mars orbit Mars and launched its lander but missed a Descents . , • 1981: Walter RT Witschey clock installed worlds largest sun in Richmond , Virginia • 1986: The Giotto probe to comet Halley is . • 2009: Is the shuttle Discovery launched on the STS -119 mission. • 2009: Astronomers detected the star WOH G64 , an unusual red supergiant (RSG ) , located in the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) might be the largest known star. Its temperature the size of our sun was measured at 3,400 K and 1,540 times its size in • 2009 : Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were evacuated to safety due to a hardware collision with space debris. • 2009: The gamma -ray Space Telescope , Fermi , publishes the image of the ultimate power in the universe. • 2009: Scientists find that a good part of the stars of the galactic bulge of the Milky Way , have large amounts of coal. • 2009: Using the Hubble Space Telescope , astronomers found strong evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter. • 2014 : Following separation of TMA- 10M Poisk module of the ISS. Landing in Kazakhstan Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanski and Michael Hopkins. • 2014 : Launch of a Protón-M/Briz-M with Russian communications satellites Ekspress -AT1 and AT2 Ekspress- ramp from 24 Area 81 cosmodrome .
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