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The 'Devil's Comet' flashes during a total solar eclipse
The US space agency (NASA) said
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In 1994, humanity once faced extinction but escaped thanks to this 'mysterious hero'
According to scientists, this 'mysterious hero' has saved the Earth and humanity from collisions many times, not only in 1994.
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'Tsunami of light' just peeled Mercury into a strange comet
In parallel with the plasma punch that ignited Earth's northern sky recently, the Sun also blasted its nearest planet - Mercury - with a plasma tsunami.
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Comet weighing 500,000 billion tons rushes towards Earth
The Hubble Space Telescope photographed the largest comet ever recorded, helping astronomers calculate its enormous size.
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Mysterious 'Black Death': Comet appeared in the sky of London, opening the tragedy of mankind
One comet appeared in late 1664 and one in early 1665. At that time, astrologers thought it was a sign of evil coming to England. However, few people understand that it…
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Comet shines above the aurora seen from space
China's Yangwang 1 satellite captured the moment comet Leonard's closest approach to Earth on December 12.
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Comet visit Earth before disappearing 80,000 years
Comet Leonard with an 80,000-year orbit is passing close to Earth, becoming the brightest comet of the year and providing a rare viewing opportunity.
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Strange objects invade the Solar System to... build a new planet?
New US research shows that interstellar objects like the asteroid Oumuamua or comet 2I/Borisov contribute greatly to the formation of planets.
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Ancient comet explosion turned the world's driest desert into glass
The dark glass fields that dot the world's driest Atacama Desert were created by a comet that exploded about 12,000 years ago.
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Mystery of the biggest explosion in history, is it a message from space?
The terrible Tunguska explosion flattened about 80 million trees on an area of 2,150 square kilometers, but no one knows where it originated.
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'Halloween Fireball' gets stronger in the sky, may peak tonight
Last Halloween night, because there was no moon, many people were able to admire the performance of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and sometimes a Halloween fireball.
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What would happen to the Earth if Comet Halley crashed into the Moon?
Named after British astrophysicist Edmund Halley, the Halley Comet is one of the most famous comets in the history of astronomy.
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Comet's tail is longer than a billion km long
The ion tail of comet 153P / Ikeya-Zhang is at least 7.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, nearly double the previous record of the comet Hyakutake.
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NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft records comets flying through the solar wind
The STEREO-A spacecraft captures a comet ATLAS that glows with a long tail trail as it passes near the Sun on May 25 - June 1.
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Comets 'disguised' meteorite scientists confused
Scientists found that what they thought they were the mysterious 'debris' of the Solar System turned out to be just a filthy block of ice.