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The world's largest 'super' camera to hunt for exoplanets
Usually Earth-like exoplanets are quite close to the host star and their photography is extremely difficult because the host star is several times brighter than these pl…
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NASA 'deadlock' decodes the mysterious light in space
Initially, the researchers assumed that it could be sunlight reflected by water. However, the beam is too large to reflect from lakes or other water bodies.
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New types of satellites can give us full-color HD movies to Earth
Developed by British company Earth-i and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, CARBONITE-2 satellite weighs only 100 kilograms and is equipped with a UHD (Ultra High Definiti…
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Guide to photographing meteor shower phenomenon
Unlike other astronomical phenomena such as Eclipse, Moonlight, or Comet - Meteor shower is a phenomenon that occurs quite often and is very interesting for those who ha…
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Mysterious blue crescent in eclipse photo
During the total solar eclipse, many witnesses tried to point the camera and smartphone to the sky to capture one of the most remarkable astronomical phenomena this year.
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Detected 23 galaxies formed after 800 million years of Big Bang explosion
According to researchers, about 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe is dark and filled with neutral hydrogen gas. The first galaxies and stars began to appear…
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The first photograph captures Earth from a rocket 70 years ago
The United States has arrested a group of German Nazi rocket scientists after World War II to serve this project. They used the German V-2 rocket, mounted it on the Devr…
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SpaceX failed: Launched successfully but could not land safely
This failure put an end to three successive landings.
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UFO hovering near the International Space Station?
The camera on the International Space Station (ISS) captured the image of a strange object playing near this place. Strange objects appear when astronauts are waiting to…
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Sand dunes are leeches on Mars
The camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) took a picture of the Martian sand dune shaped like a large leech.
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Detecting signs of water on comet surfaces
The Rosetta spacecraft, currently in a trawl around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, has detected 120 light spots on the comet surface with an area of at least 2m.
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Find the first kit of tools on the Moon
Two years after Neil Armstrong's death, his wife discovered a cloth bag containing the camera and tools that the astronaut had brought to the Moon.
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See Earth from 430km altitude right on your computer
With only a computer connected to the network, you can experience the perspective of an astronaut when looking at Earth from a height of 430km.
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Evidence of flags on the moon still exists
The image from the US Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft indicates that flags brought by the spacecraft on the moon exist, except for the Apollo 11 flag.
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Mars appears in the image of the Earth at a distance
Mars was suddenly present in a photo of Earth from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.