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On this day in 1934, a 32-year-old chemist at DuPont created a revolutionary material that would transform everything from clothing to medicine. Wallace Carothers' invention of nylon marked one of the greatest breakthroughs in synthetic materials.
An archivist just discovered the only known photograph of Richard Carrington, the astronomer who witnessed the most powerful solar storm ever recorded in 1859. After 150 years of searching, the portrait turned up on eBay.
In 1883, a brilliant Mexican astronomer captured photographs of mysterious objects passing between Earth and the sun—hundreds of them. More than a century later, scientists would realize José Árbol y Bonilla may have documented the closest call our planet ever had with a cosmic disaster.