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Japan launched unmanned spacecraft
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Japan launched unmanned spacecraft

At 2 am September 11 (local time), Japan successfully launched the H-2B missile from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, carrying the country's first unman…

December 17, 2018
Garbage blocking the way of the spacecraft
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Garbage blocking the way of the spacecraft

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) decided to let Space Shuttle Discovery dodge the orbit of a piece of cosmic trash before it returned to Earth.

December 17, 2018
Planets pave the way for clean energy
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Planets pave the way for clean energy

A group of international scientists headed by Oxford University have looked at the dense and hot mass in the center of the planets ...

December 17, 2018
Discovering the planet in paradox
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Discovering the planet in paradox

Astronomers in the UK have found the first planet to turn against its own star. The star forms when a cloud of dust and gas shrinks, causing its own mass to increase

December 17, 2018
The first black holes were
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The first black holes were

The first black holes in the universe have a huge impact on their surroundings despite the fact that they are small and grow very slowly, following new supercomputer mod…

December 17, 2018
Find the Milky Way's hidden neighbor
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Find the Milky Way's hidden neighbor

Two scientists from the University of California (USA) - judged that the gravitational force from a galaxy causes disturbances in the Milky Way's disk of dust.

December 17, 2018
Radiation stimulates star formation
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Radiation stimulates star formation

A new study by two NASA observatories provides new knowledge about star formation, along with a very beautiful picture of a star-forming region in our galaxy.

December 17, 2018
The harsh youth of the Sun
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The harsh youth of the Sun

One of the hottest topics in the 27th joint study of the International Astronomical Society (IAU) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil includes studying astronomical conditions sui…

December 17, 2018
Korea delayed the launch of the rocket
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Korea delayed the launch of the rocket

On the afternoon of August 19, South Korea continued to postpone the country's first rocket launch, KSLV-1, only 7 minutes 56 seconds before the scheduled launch time.

December 17, 2018
Billard game of giant planets
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Billard game of giant planets

A group of scientists has discovered a new planet that moves abnormally around its host star. The planet is called WASP-17 and revolves around a star located 1,000 light…

December 17, 2018
Planetary nebula
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Planetary nebula

A group of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Professor Miroslav Filipović from the University of Western Sydney, discovered a new class of objects ca…

December 17, 2018