Shortly after midnight on March 13, , Breonna Taylor, a year-old Black emergency medical technician, is shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment after officers busted through her door with a battering ram. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, After more than five years of fundraising, shooting, and editing, the documentary Paris is Burning debuts in New York City on March 13, Less than a week after the disastrous defeat of Texas rebels at the Alamo, the newly commissioned Texan General Sam Houston begins a series of strategic retreats to buy time to train his ill-prepared army.
Revolutionary Texans had only formally announced their independence from In and of itself, one man leaving one band in the middle of the s might warrant little more than a historical footnote. But what makes the departure of Eric Clapton from the Yardbirds on March 13, , more significant is the long and complicated game of musical chairs it Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
When they abducted As a result of his discovery, the monarch knighted Herschel and appointed him to the position of court astronomer. The attached pension allowed him to conclude his musical career and focus his full attention on the skies.
When Herschel was subsequently elected a member of the prestigious Royal Society, he received a copy of Charles Messier's "Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters," a list of diverse nebulae in the night sky. The catalog piqued his interest, and he began to examine the fuzzy objects. On Oct. By pointing the stationary telescope at a single strip of the sky, he was able to observe east-west bands over the course of the night.
The next night, he would adjust his telescope to a higher or lower point and observe another parallel strip. Eventually, he examined the entire swatch of sky that could be seen over Great Britain.
Over 20 years, he observed 2, new nebulae and star clusters and recorded them in "The General Catalogue of Nebulae. Of the 7, nebulae and clusters in the catalog today, 4, were discovered by Herschel and his son.
In , Herschel finished construction on foot-long 12 meters telescope, the largest of the day. But the unwieldy instrument came with a number of problems, and Herschel tended to use the smaller, foot 6-meter telescope. Herschel discovered several moons around the gas giants. In , he discovered two moons around Uranus: Titania and Oberon.
In , using his larger telescope, he found Saturn' s sixth and seventh moons , Enceladus and Mimas. In , Herschel performed a simple experiment determining the temperature of the different colors of sunlight passed through a prism.
By pure happenstance, when Herschel died in , the span of his life had run the same number of years — 84 — that Uranus takes to circle the Sun once. Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. View our Privacy Policy. By signing up you may also receive reader surveys and occasional special offers. We do not sell, rent or trade our email lists.
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