Star novelist Terry Pratchett will open the UK's largest planetarium at Winchester's INTECH Science Centre next month. The popular science fiction and children's author will officially unveil the new £650,000 facility on Wednesday, March 19, before it's opened to the public two days later on Go...
Wilson of the Antarctic A century ago, in the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, the extraordinary life of naturalist, artist and medical doctor Edward Wilson ended. Wilson's commitment to alleviating human suffering, undertaking scientific research, creative excellence and exploration ha...
Francesco Maria Grimaldi (2 April 1618 - 28 December 1663) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. In astronomy, he built and used instruments to measure lunar mountains as well as the height of clouds, and drew an accurate map or, selen...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, was dedicated to Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an early patron of the composer. The piece was published in 1801 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel of Leipzig. The premiere took place on 2 April 1800 at the K.K. Hoftheater nächst der Burg in Vienna. Read...
Juan Ponce de León (1474 - July 1521) was a Spanish explorer. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. On April 2, 1513, they sighted land which Ponce de León believed was another island. He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter...
Taking advantage of a relatively new technology, the daguerreotype, French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault made the first successful photographs of the sun on April 2, 1845. The original image, taken with an exposure of 1/60th of a second, was about 12 centimetres in diameter and captu...
A SL-12 Rocket Body that was launched on the 30th March, 2012, from the Tyuratam launch complex for the Kosmos-2479 satellite mission re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 1st April, 2012 @ 13:33 GMT ± 1 minute.SL-12 RB
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Bell Island 1978 - A genuine mystery A clip from the 2004 documentary The Invisible Machine, directed by Barbara Doran and John Whalen. Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay. On Apr...
Iran to launch new satellite in February Iran's Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has announced plans for launching a satellite into space as well as kicking off several military projects in February. General Vahidi said the projects will be launched during the Ten Days of Dawn (Fe...
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