Tag: helium

This Day, That Year – August 18

This day in history we feature Helium. French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium on this day in 1868. Trivia – Helium Helium was discovered in the gaseous atmosphere surrounding the Sun by a bright yellow line in the spectrum of the solar chromosphere; this line was initially assumed to represent the element sodium. The line […]

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