Space

Impact of the Scientific Revolution on Astronomy

  • Sep 30, 1543

    Book

    Polidh astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus publishes a book suggesting the earth revolves around the sun
  • Period: Sep 30, 1543 to

    Impact of the Scientific Revolution

  • Hypothesis

    French astronomer Pierre- Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandecsent gas
  • Star

    The red dwarf Proxima Centauri 4.22 lightyears away, is dicorvered by Robert Innes.
  • Hubble

    US astronomer Edwin Hubble proves that the nebula Andromeda is vastly further away than other stars and can only be a seperate galaxy
  • Future

    Sometime our sun will go supernova