Herschel's discovery ofthe planet Uranuswas almost entirely a matter of luck. In 1781, as he was continuing his search for double stars, he noticed that one tiny point of light had moved. He also noticed that it wasn't quite star-like, but more disk-shaped. Today, we know that a di...
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Not long after its discovery in 1781, the new planet Uranus was found to have strange movements that could only be attributed to another body. Neptune's discovery in 1846 somewhat accounted for the orbit, but there were still discrepancies that led scientists to conclude yet another planet exist...
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In 1781 Herschel went on to identify Uranus, the first planet discovered since antiquity, prompting him to say, "I have looked further into space than any human being did before me."8During the early nineteenth century, while mapping the Milky Way, he was the first to demonstrate that the...
Who discovered solar flares? Our sun has always fascinated us. It was Richard Christopher Carrington (and independently by Richard Hodgson) who first observed solar flares on the Sun as localized visible brightening’s of small areas within a sunspot group. ...
The most famous pharaoh is Tutankhamen, most commonly referred to as King Tut. King Tut, whose tomb was first discovered in 1922, was a young boy when he assumed the throne. He was only 18 years old when he died. His wife and grandfather are suspected of murdering him with a fatal bl...
Fr. Stephen:Right, that there was sort of an original name that incorporated both. Baal-Hadda, Ba’al Hadda. This is the Lord Hadad, so one started calling him the Lord, and the other started calling him Hadad, by his proper name. And then within that,we’ve talked aboutthe use of...
Knowing that she lacked the physical strength to beat someone like Doma (the second-strongest demon surviving under Muzan Kibutsuji), Shinobu allowed herself to be eaten by Doma to weaken him and allow a killing blow. This particular poison was so powerful that it actually melted Doma's flesh...