On This Week in Space History… We Found a New World. On September 23-24, 1846, astronomer Johann Galle pointed a telescope toward the night sky… and saw a faint dot of light exactly where mathematician Urbain Le Verrier had predicted it would be.
That faint dot was Neptune! The first planet ever discovered through mathematics before observation. It proved our understanding of gravity was powerful enough to predict unseen worlds.
It’s wild to think… less than 200 years ago, humanity didn’t even know Neptune existed.
What do you think? Will we one day discover Planet Nine the same way, with math leading the way?
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On This Week in Space History… We Found a New World.
On September 23-24, 1846, astronomer Johann Galle pointed a telescope toward the night sky… and saw a faint dot of light exactly where mathematician Urbain Le Verrier had predicted it would be.
That faint dot was Neptune! The first planet ever discovered through mathematics before observation.
It proved our understanding of gravity was powerful enough to predict unseen worlds.
It’s wild to think… less than 200 years ago, humanity didn’t even know Neptune existed.
What do you think? Will we one day discover Planet Nine the same way, with math leading the way?
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