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3	4      214 years ago, in 1675: John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal; The King's Astronomical Observator.	5	6      74 years ago, in 1815: Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers a periodic comet, 13P/Olbers.	7	8	9      31 years ago, in 1858: Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke 'rediscovers' comet 7P/Pons–Winnecke.
10	11	12	13      108 years ago, in 1781: William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus; first planet discovered through a telescope.	14      10 years ago, in 1879: Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, in the German Empire.	15	16
17      37 years ago, in 1852: 16 Psyche, one of the ten most massive objects in the asteroid belt, is discovered by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis from Naples.	18	19	20      108 years ago, in 1781: M96 (NGC 3368), an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo, is discovered by Pierre Méchain.	21      205 years ago, in 1684: Giovanni Cassini discovers one of Saturn's moons, Tethys.	22	23      49 years ago, in 1840: John William Draper takes the first successful photograph (Daguerreotype process) of the Moon.
24      108 years ago, in 1781: M105 (NGC 3379), an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo, is discovered by Pierre Méchain.	25      234 years ago, in 1655: Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan.      78 years ago, in 1811: The French astronomer Honore Flaugergues discovers the Great Comet of 1811 (C/1811 F1), visible to the naked eye for about 260 days.	26	27	28      87 years ago, in 1802: Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers the third largest asteroid, Pallas.	29      82 years ago, in 1807: Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers the second largest asteroid, Vesta.	30
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