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Detect the word star and its emission
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Detect the word star and its emission

According to NASA's Swift satellite, many radioactive streams are emitted from a rare object, which is known as a short gamma radio station (SGR soft gamma).

December 17, 2018
Discover the mystery related to sunspots
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Discover the mystery related to sunspots

The sun is in the quietest state for a century or so, and the dark spots are scarcely in a way that has been confusing for over two years. Now, for the first time, solar…

December 17, 2018
Element acceleration in the Milky Way galaxy
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Element acceleration in the Milky Way galaxy

Thanks to a special study combining data from ESO's Extra Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers shed light on the mystery of the acceleration…

December 17, 2018
Galaxies reach adulthood in hydrogen pools
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Galaxies reach adulthood in hydrogen pools

The growth of galaxies and black holes has been made clear by data from NASA's Chandra Space Telescope and many other telescopes. This finding helps discover the nature…

December 17, 2018
Sunspot: the latest simulation
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Sunspot: the latest simulation

For a long time, the principle of internal activity of sunspots on the sun has always been a mystery, but today we can use computers to simulate its activity and observe…

December 17, 2018
Vietnam satellite image receiving station is ready
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Vietnam satellite image receiving station is ready

The first satellite image receiving station using Vietnam's remote sensing technology (located in Tu Liem, Hanoi) will be inaugurated by the National Remote Sensing Cent…

December 17, 2018
Evidence of widespread water in Mars
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Evidence of widespread water in Mars

According to reports from Nasa's Opportunity probe, there is a network of water spread across a vast area hidden beneath the floating dunes on Mars's surface.

December 17, 2018
The earth is farther away from the sun
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The earth is farther away from the sun

Each year the distance between the sun and the earth increases by 15 cm. The momentum of the sun's decline may be the cause of this phenomenon.

December 17, 2018