🔬 A clue to helium is seen in the Sun (1868)
Britain's Norman Lockyer named it helium, after the Greek word for the Sun.
Where: Guntur, India
📅 On This Day: August 18
August 18, 1868: A clue to helium is seen in the Sun. On 18 August 1868, while watching a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India, French astronomer Jules Janssen saw a strange yellow line in the Sun's light. It was a sign of a new element no one knew about.
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- 1958 🏅 Brojen Das from Bangladesh swam across the English Channel in a race in 1958, finishing first and becoming the first Asian to swim the Channel.
- 1976 🚀 The Soviet robot probe Luna 24 landed on the Moon in 1976, drilled into the ground, and later brought a sample of Moon soil back to Earth.
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The name 'helium' comes from a word meaning what?
- A balloon
- The Sun
- The sea
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Answer: The Sun
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August 18, 1868: A clue to helium is seen in the Sun. It happened in Guntur, India.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium