September Gallery

Soccer - FA Carling Premiership - Chelsea v Newcastle United

Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Shuttle launch. Space Shuttle Columbia lifting off from the Kennedy Space Centre, USA. During this mission, STS-83, the shuttle's crew performed various experiments in the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1). The shuttle's crew for this mission was James Halsell (commander), Susan Still (pilot), Janice Voss (payload commander), mission specialists Michael Gernhardt and Donald Thomas, and payload specialists Roger Crouch and Gregory Linteris. Photographed on 4 April 1997; a faulty fuel cell forced the shuttle to return on 8 April 1997

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Artwork of refractor telescope that found Neptune

Refracting telescope. Artwork of the 23 centimetre (9-inch) Fraunhofer refractor telescope at Berlin Observatory, Germany, on 23 September 1846, the night that it was used to discover Neptune. German astronomer Johann Galle, aided by Louis D'Arrest, looked in a portion of the sky where the French astronomer Leverrier calculated a planet would be. This calculation was based on perturba- tions in the orbit of Uranus. Galle and D'Arrest compared the night sky to a new but unpublished star atlas, and within a few minutes found an unknown object just 1 degree from the predicted position. Observations the following night showed that it had moved, proving that it was a planet

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