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It was on 1st September 1859, that the young astronomer Richard Carrington noticed something unusual while he was observing the sun with his brass telescope. Suddenly, he saw two patches of intensely bright white light, what he assumed were some distortions to the sunspots that he was studying. Auroras Everywhere Later, that night, and the …

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Launched into space on 3rd November 1957, Sputnik-2 was the second space object launched by the Soviets, almost a year after they launched Sputnik-1, the first space object. Sputnik-2 design While Sputnik-2 differed from 1 in various aspects, one of the most remarkable differences was that it was the first spacecraft to launch a living …

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