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Close up of the Milky Way's
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Close up of the Milky Way's

Some of the Milky Way stars must be 13 billion years old, but the production machine is constantly working to produce new generation of stars.

December 17, 2018
Take a photo of two sun planets
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Take a photo of two sun planets

Somewhere in a distant galaxy, scientists believe they captured the first image of a planet orbiting the two suns.

December 17, 2018
Black hole woke up after 30 years,
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Black hole woke up after 30 years,

For the first time, astrophysicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland discovered a black hole swallowing a planet with an estimated mass of 15 times that of Jup…

December 17, 2018
Found signs of dark matter
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Found signs of dark matter

A state-of-the-art device on the International Space Station has found evidence of the existence of dark matter, which binds the universe to a mass of scientific circles…

December 17, 2018
4 Mars exploration equipment
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4 Mars exploration equipment

Earth, sun and Mars will line up in April, with the sun in the middle. So, if we look at the Earth in April, we won't see Mars due to the red planet

December 17, 2018
The launch of the spacecraft looks from orbit
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The launch of the spacecraft looks from orbit

When the Russian Soyuz flew up from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 28, Chris Hadfield - Canadian astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) - recorde…

December 17, 2018
Russia wants to
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Russia wants to

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) may join the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in an effort to kidnap a meteorite.

December 17, 2018
German fascists once wanted to build
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German fascists once wanted to build

Making a weapon capable of destroying the enemy with sunlight is a plan that the Nazis almost carried out during their reign.

December 17, 2018
NASA telescope set a new record
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NASA telescope set a new record

Space Agency's US Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) has captured the most distant star image in the universe so far, especially when the star exploded 10 billion years ago.

December 17, 2018
Death star bends light
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Death star bends light

Space telescope Kepler and experts of the American Palomar Observatory found the super-solid white dwarf died in a binary star system.

December 17, 2018
Mountain on Mars is higher than Mount Everest
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Mountain on Mars is higher than Mount Everest

After more than eight months of Mars exploration, NASA's Curiosity probe captured a panoramic view of the 5,486-meter-tall Aeolis Mons in the center of the Gale Crater b…

December 17, 2018