#OTD in 1934, Carl Sagan was born. He chaired the committee that chose the contents of the Voyager Golden Record and had the original idea to use a Voyager camera to image Earth, which led to the Pale Blue Dot.
Via @NASA:
#OTD in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed that when he shielded his tube with heavy black cardboard, a screen nine feet away still glowed. He called the unknown rays "X-rays."
Read more from @NobelPrize: go.aps.org/3UI7TPU#PhysicsHistory
Marie Curie (1867), Lise Meitner (1878), and C.V. Raman (1888) were all born on Nov. 7.
Read about Meitner and Otto Frisch's 1939 paper on nuclear fission in APS News: go.aps.org/4z4P0oA#PhysicsHistory
The Southern Taurids peaked around Nov. 5, and the Northern Taurids peak around Nov. 12. Each produces only a handful of meteors per hour, but NASA says an occasional bright fireball can make the wait worthwhile.
NASA's November sky guide:
By studying a real fish swimming among virtual fish, researchers uncover the rules that a fish follows when schooling. The results suggest that schooling fish focus on a single influential neighbor.
Read the story in Physics Magazine:
