Portal:Astronomy/Did you know
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...that the Stingray Nebula, thought to have formed around 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula?
...that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first ever telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?
...that Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 passed within Jupiter's Roche limit in 1992, causing it to break up into smaller pieces two years before it collided with the planet?
...that the Kaidun meteorite fell on March 12, 1980 on a Soviet military base in Yemen and may be from Phobos?
...that GRB 060218 is a gamma ray burst close enough for its associated supernova to be observed?
...that the trans-Neptunian object Eris is believed to be larger than Pluto and is no longer claimed to be the solar system's tenth planet due to the recent IAU definition of planet?
