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Astronomy, Titanic 3D has to come back
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Astronomy, Titanic 3D has to come back

Director James Cameron is forced to return some scenes from his cult movie Titanic after an astronomer complained that the stars in the sky were

December 17, 2018
See Saturn in April
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See Saturn in April

April 21-22 here will appear meteor shower named Lyrids, Mr. Dang Vu Tuan Son, Chairman of the amateur astronomical club said.

December 17, 2018
New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars
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New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars

New photographs, introduced March 28, include infrared images of the galaxy taken from surveying the sky from two different telescopes, the first being the infrared tele…

December 17, 2018
The earth has thousands of moons
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The earth has thousands of moons

Scientists have modeled supercomputers to track the orbit of 10 million meteorites passing through the Earth System - the Moon. The orbits of the Sun with Earth-like orb…

December 17, 2018
Detecting ... elephant head on Mars
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Detecting ... elephant head on Mars

The image below makes people think of an elephant on Mars. But this is actually a lava flow that forms the shape of an elephant head. The photo was taken by a high-resol…

December 17, 2018
Without magnetic fields, Venus still has an aurora
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Without magnetic fields, Venus still has an aurora

Scientists have always assumed that aurora phenomenon cannot appear on Venus because the planet does not have an Earth-like magnetic field, but the results of the recent…

December 17, 2018
Russia will follow the 'threat of earth'
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Russia will follow the 'threat of earth'

Scientists have warned 99942 Apophis - meteorite about 487m across - capable of hitting the earth. In 2029, Apophis will be about 57,600km away from the globe, equivalen…

December 17, 2018
Huge black hole swallowed the stars
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Huge black hole swallowed the stars

Many theories suggest that a black hole has a mass of millions to billions of solar masses due to the huge amount of gas, or in combination with other black holes. Howev…

December 17, 2018