2016 – Caltech researchers find evidence of ninth planet moving in what they called a “bizarre, highly elongated orbit” in the outer solar system.
2010 – European Southern Observatory releases new picture of The Cat’s Paw Nebula.
Birthdays
1939 – Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe MBE is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology.
1930 – Birthday Buzz Aldrin. His first space flight was in November 1966 as copilot of the earth orbital rendezvous mission Gemini 12 when he achieved a record 5.5 hour space walk. In July 1969, Colonel Aldrin, as part of the Apollo11 lunar mission, became the second man to set foot on the moon. His companions on the mission were Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong.