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4th Century BCE
Aristotle presented evidence for a spherical Earth.
16th Century
Nicolaus Copernicus formulated a heliocentric model of the solar system.
20th July 1969
Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Moon.
1687
Isaac Newton published 'Principia Mathematica', formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1609
Galileo Galilei made improvements to the telescope.
1543
Copernicus published his heliocentric theory.
17th Century
Johannes Kepler proposed the laws of planetary motion.
1781
William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
1846
Discovery of Neptune based on predictions by Urbain Le Verrier.
1600
Giordano Bruno proposed an infinite universe with a multitude of worlds.
1929
Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding.
1930
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
21st Century
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets.
14th January 2005
Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
1915
Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity.
1610
Galileo Galilei discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
1961
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
4th January 2004
NASA's Spirit Rover landed on Mars.
2006
The International Astronomical Union redefined the term 'planet', which led to the reclassification of Pluto.
1989
The Voyager 2 probe flew past Neptune.
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