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Fact Today!
On March 17, 1610, Galileo Galilei published his observations of Jupiter’s moons in his book Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger).
This was groundbreaking evidence supporting the heliocentric model of the solar system.
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Fact Today!
Pi (π) is an irrational number, meaning it has an infinite number of decimal places without repeating.
The most commonly used approximation of π is 3.14159, but it has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits!
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) because the date matches the first three digits of π (3.14).
Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day (March 14, 1879), making it extra special for science lovers.
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Fact Today! English astronomer William Herschel observed Uranus on the 13th March 1781
Uranus is referred to as the 'Ice Giant', with a mass of 14.5 greater and is 4 times wider than the Earth.
It is the only planet which rotates on its side. It is said that a collision might have caused this unusual tilt in the axis of Uranus. The wind speeds there can reach up to 900 km per hour.
It takes 84 Earth years for Uranus to make a full revolution around the sun.
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Feb 7, 1992 – The discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star was announced
This groundbreaking discovery opened up the field of exoplanet research, changing how we think about the possibility of life beyond Earth. The exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, was found by astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who later won the Nobel Prize in 2019 for their work
This event marks a milestone in our understanding of the universe, as it kicked off a whole new era of searching for potentially habitable planets. Pretty timely for today!
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