2025 – APOD publishes a discovery image by group of amateur astrophotographers who searched through sky surveys for possible supernova remnant candidates. The result was the first ever image of a supernova remnant.
2008 – Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pan & Pandora
2002 – EVA STS-111-1 Crew: Chang-Diaz, Perrin. EVA Duration: 0.31 days. The astronauts installed the PGDF grapple fixture on the P6 truss, stowed some space debris shields on the PMA-1 adapter, and prepared the
Mobile Base System (MBS) in the Shuttle cargo bay.
1995 – NASA Astronaut Training Group 15 selected.
1993 – Hubble makes a major step in mesuring the age of the universe. A team of astronomers announced results of a major step in the Key Project to measure the Hubble Constant and the age of the universe.
1988 – The discovery of an Einstien ring was published in the Nature. Predicted by Albert Einstein in 1936, Einstein rings form when two objects, such as galaxies, quasars, or stars, are perfectly aligned to our view, and the light from the more distant object is lensed, or bent, by the one in foreground, creating a ring around it.
1986 – The 255 page Rogers Commission Report is published. It was created by a Presidential Commission charged with investigaing the Space Shttle Challenger disaster, STS-51-L.
1980 – Landing of Soyuz T-2 return with crew Vladimir Aksyonov and Yuri Malyshev.
1952 – The Abee Meteorite, a 107 kg enstatite chondrite meteorite fell in central Alberta into a wheat field owned by Harry Buryn.
Birthdays
1946 – Francis Andrew “Drew” Gaffney is an American doctor and former astronaut. He previously worked for NASA and participated in the STS-40 Space Life Sciences (SLS 1) Space Shuttle mission in 1991 as a payload specialist.
1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle’s a German observer who first saw Neptune. Galle is also noteworthy for having been Encke’s assistant, and he’s one of the few astronomers ever to have observed Halley’s Comet twice.