My first Magazine SFI Little Book - April Re-print edits included | Page 9
6 3150 BC
8 1938
The roof box at Newgrange keeps
time using the winter solstice sun.
Westmeath born Kenneth Edgeworth
proposes Pluto is not a planet but
rather a large piece of space rubble.
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7 1943
7 1845 AD
Birr, Co. Offaly, was home to the world’s
largest telescope, the Leviathan.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is born in County
Armagh and will later go on to discover
pulsating radio stars, or pulsars.