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August 18 - 1868: India - French astronomer, Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discovered the gas, helium, while observing a solar eclipse at Guntar ~ noticed bright lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is gaseous. #history
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