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Capture the clear sun image like never before
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Capture the clear sun image like never before

Hi-C telescopes are mounted on missiles longer than 17m to glide over part of the orbit for about 10 minutes. During that time, a telescope camera captured 165 photos of…

December 17, 2018
Russian spacecraft cannot access the space port
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Russian spacecraft cannot access the space port

Russia's Progress cargo ship Progress could not dock at the International Space Station (ISS), so it was waiting in space to retry in the next few days, the US and Russi…

December 17, 2018
The island of Mars is right on Earth
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The island of Mars is right on Earth

For the past 16 years, NASA scientists have made many flights to the Canadian island of Devon, which has similar topographic features to Mars to study and test technolog…

December 17, 2018
Today the planet is farthest away from the sun
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Today the planet is farthest away from the sun

The US Naval Observatory said that the earth would reach the farthest point of the sun (aphelion) in its orbit at 4:00 GMT on July 5 (11am on Vietnamese time). At that p…

December 17, 2018
Detecting dark matter fibers
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Detecting dark matter fibers

Astrophysicists say they have discovered a strand of dark matter networks, believed to play a role in connecting galaxies and helping the universe to imagine.

December 17, 2018
Mysterious binary star systems
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Mysterious binary star systems

Astronomers have identified four binary systems with members that exist side by side, contrary to the popular hypothesis in the scientific world.

December 17, 2018
The sun sprayed the X-level flare
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The sun sprayed the X-level flare

After the M-level flare in the middle of the week, AR1515 continued to explode the X-level flare, the strongest level in the solar activity scale. Since the 1515 (AR 151…

December 17, 2018
Worms live longer when flying into space
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Worms live longer when flying into space

Flying in space can help you live longer, according to an expert from the University of Nottingham (UK). However, the researcher this time is the parasite Caenorhabditis…

December 17, 2018
Search for life on Mars
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Search for life on Mars

Curiosity, the name of the self-propelled device of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) flying to Mars, will land on the red planet on August 5. Where it will land is the Gal…

December 17, 2018
Close up of the largest crater on Mars
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Close up of the largest crater on Mars

Endeavor crater - dating back about 4 billion years - has nearly 23km of Mars-covered sand on the planet that looks like the Sahara or Western desert (Egypt) on Earth, c…

December 17, 2018
Time travel
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Time travel

A favorite topic of science fiction films is 'the portal', ie space or time gates connecting astronauts with distant worlds.

December 17, 2018
Giant pupils in the universe
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Giant pupils in the universe

The star, known as U Camelopardis and in the constellation Camelopardalis (Giraffe), is in the final stage of life, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Helium gas in i…

December 17, 2018