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Decode the mystery of Mercury's personality
Mercury tiny, the innermost planet of the solar system, seems to have a semi-solid nucleus. The finding may help explain the planet's weak magnetic field. Due to its sma…
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NASA: Satellite studies the clouds
Recently, NASA introduced a spacecraft on a rocket with the primary mission of studying floating mystical clouds 50 miles from Earth.
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Do not like to return to earth
If selected, Russian astronauts will never want to return to earth. That is the part they like the least in their work.
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Find fat planet
Watch out at the scale! HAT-P-2b, a round fat planet with such gravitational pull that a person weighing nearly 70 kg on earth when there will weigh more than 1 ton. Thi…
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The explosion was so intense that it surprised the astronomers
It was the brightest and most energetic starburst known, and may be the first evidence of a new kind of supernova.
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There are tornadoes on Saturn
Scientists on May 8 said they believed that it was the storms themselves, not the other elements that controlled the whirlwind (up to 400 km / g) on Saturn. The basis…
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Discovering planets hotter than 2,000 degrees Celsius
Scientists on May 9 said they have discovered an outer planet. The solar system is about the same size as Saturn, with temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, t…
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NASA announced Hubble's new successor telescope
NASA has introduced a real-life model of the future James Spaceb telescope (JWST). JWST will be launched in 2013, replacing the Hubble telescope to observe the universe.
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The Israeli Air Force buys half a million square meters on ... the moon
This unusual purchase contract was officially signed by Israeli air force representative with Crazyshop, a company operating in Israel under the mandate of American busi…
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An old star near the universe
By using a special process, astronomers from the European Astronomical Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) have identified a star in our Milky Way tha…
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China successfully launched communications satellites for Nigeria
China successfully launched a communications satellite for Nigeria into orbit. According to Xinhua, this is the first time a foreign partner has bought Chinese satellite…
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The secret to sleeping well on ... Mars
NASA Space Agency has asked the laboratory of Dr. Charles Czeisler (director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston) to find ways to help…
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Detecting a ring of dark matter
Astronomers say they have documented the best evidence so far about the existence of dark matter, located 5 billion light-years away in the collision of two galactic gro…
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Laboratory simulating the environment on Mars
The Padoue University Italian researchers have established a laboratory capable of replicating living conditions on other planets.
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NASA: The Atlantis Shuttle ship has been repaired
Atlantis shuttle returned to the launch platform at Cape Canaveral, Florida state, on May 15 after 2 and a half months of repairs. White streaks on the fuel tank are a t…