8 January 2016BlackstarTony Visconti
Co-produces Blackstar, Bowie's final studio album, released two days before Bowie's death.
Historical records for United States of America in 2016, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Co-produces Blackstar, Bowie's final studio album, released two days before Bowie's death.
Dies in New York, prompting major tributes to his role as Eagles co-founder and songwriter.
Reitze announces the first direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO collaboration
New Horizons images 1994 JR1 from about 111 million kilometres away, then the closest spacecraft observations of a small Kuiper Belt object.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Deep Purple's recognised classic membership.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Deep Purple.
Voyager 1's ultraviolet spectrometer is switched off as part of long-term power conservation.
Parker leads Hubble observations discovering a small dark moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake.
Parker leads Hubble observations revealing a small dark moon orbiting the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Makemake.
Models using New Horizons data show that Sputnik Planitia's nitrogen ice is renewed by slow convection, producing polygonal surface cells.
Juno enters a polar orbit around Jupiter after a five-year interplanetary journey.
Juno returns the first close images of Jupiter's north pole, revealing dense storm systems.
Juno completes its first close Jupiter pass with the full science instrument suite operating.
Publishes Born to Run, a memoir about his life, music and struggles with depression.
Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The final stored data from the 2015 Pluto encounter finish downloading to Earth after more than fifteen months.
Research proposes that Pluto's nitrogen-rich Sputnik Planitia could have formed early and migrated as the dwarf planet's rotation evolved.
Death of Vera Rubin
New Horizons observations determine that Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1 rotates roughly once every five and a half hours.
The Revenant brings DiCaprio his first Academy Award for Best Actor.
Directs and stars in Fences, adapting August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Riess and the SH0ES collaboration improve the local Hubble constant measurement, sharpening comparisons between the late universe and cosmological models containing dark energy.
Co-writes and stars in Keanu, a comedy about two cousins searching for a stolen kitten.
Writes and directs La La Land, a musical romance about two artists pursuing careers in Los Angeles.
Releases archival recordings from the London Fog.
A post-mission data release provides the first global topographic model of Mercury and expands the lasting scientific archive from MESSENGER.
Directs Moonlight, tracing one man's childhood, adolescence and adulthood in three connected chapters.
Hubble observations confirm a long-lived dark vortex in Neptune's southern hemisphere.
Simon and colleagues identify increased cloud activity that precedes the appearance of a later large Neptune dark storm.
NASA approves the New Horizons extended mission to explore the Kuiper Belt and conduct a close flyby of 2014 MU69.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.
New Horizons studies identify widespread past and present glacial activity, including eroded and hanging valleys on Pluto.
New Horizons results strengthen evidence that Pluto may retain a subsurface water-ice ocean beneath its crust.
With Stephen Hawking and Malcolm Perry, develops a soft-hair framework linking horizon symmetries to the black hole information problem.
Directs Sully, starring Tom Hanks as airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger.
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