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Dragon private ship is about to return to Earth
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Dragon private ship is about to return to Earth

The astronauts in the ISS closed the door connecting the Dragon train yesterday. The spacecraft will return more than 600kg of old equipment. Before the sun rises this m…

December 17, 2018
Two meteors just fly close to Earth
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Two meteors just fly close to Earth

According to the Universe Today, the 2012 KT42 meteorite, about 5 meters in diameter, flew over our Earth at 2 am on May 29, at an extremely close distance of 14.323km -…

December 17, 2018
Interior view of private Dragon spacecraft
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Interior view of private Dragon spacecraft

André Kuipers, a physicist and astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), posted a bunch of photos of Dragon on Flickr page with the caption:

December 17, 2018
The human galaxy will collide with the galaxy M31
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The human galaxy will collide with the galaxy M31

NASA said, the human galaxy will collide with the nearest galaxy, Andromeda (M31), for about four billion years. Experts about the universe said, if a collision between…

December 17, 2018
Flag Vietnam on missile launcher VINASAT-2
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Flag Vietnam on missile launcher VINASAT-2

One of the milestones marking the preparation for launching VINASAT-2 satellite at the European Space Center Arianespace is the process of attaching logos and flags of c…

December 17, 2018
Vesta is the newborn planet
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Vesta is the newborn planet

The new discovery shows that Vesta is not an asteroid but is a newborn planet exactly from Ancient times, but not undergoing accretion and evolution to join the ranks of…

December 17, 2018
The mysterious planet in the solar system
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The mysterious planet in the solar system

Kuiper belt is made up of ice objects and lies just outside the orbit of Neptune. Rodney Gomes, an astronomer from the Brazilian National Observatory, said that with mod…

December 17, 2018
Russia launched Soyuz on the space station
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Russia launched Soyuz on the space station

The crew of two Russians and an American on May 15 was launched on the International Space Station (ISS) with Soyuz FG boosters, from Russia's Baikonur Space Airport in…

December 17, 2018