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Interior view of private Dragon spacecraft
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Interior view of private Dragon spacecraft

André Kuipers, a physicist and astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), posted a bunch of photos of Dragon on Flickr page with the caption:

December 17, 2018
Seeing the 'fire ring' around the Sun
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Seeing the 'fire ring' around the Sun

The phenomenon of the upper ring of fire is also known as the solar solar eclipse, which is Latin for 'circle', visible from various areas in Asia, the Pacific region an…

December 17, 2018
Nearly 5,000 planets are threatening the earth
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Nearly 5,000 planets are threatening the earth

The orbits of meteorites and planets make them occasionally approach the earth to a level of concern. Until now, scientists have found about 30% of this object. The plan…

December 17, 2018
'Super moon' is about to appear
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'Super moon' is about to appear

This weekend's full moon phenomenon will happen when the moon approaches the globe most of the year. The moon will appear with a round shape at 7:30 pm on 5/5 GMT (2:35…

December 17, 2018
The black hole tore apart the star
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The black hole tore apart the star

Like a careless prey wandering in the forest, the red giant star accidentally moved near a black hole and was torn apart. With masses of millions to billions of solar ti…

December 17, 2018
Obsessive super moon
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Obsessive super moon

In fact, the name super moon is proposed by astronomer Richard Nolle in 1979, and is still not officially used in the scientific community or astronomy, but the academy…

December 17, 2018
The secret to helping you
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The secret to helping you

With a value of up to $ 1,000 per gram, the stones from this space are always the target of many hunters. The following tips may help the process of finding them, but ke…

December 17, 2018
See before the end of the earth
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See before the end of the earth

Using Hubble's telescope to study the atmospheric composition of four white dwarfs, astronomers from the University of Warwick (UK) discovered that most of the material…

December 17, 2018
Ancient Mars atmosphere resembles Earth
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Ancient Mars atmosphere resembles Earth

The new study supports the hypothesis that Mars initially had a thick and humid atmosphere, with a fairly similar climate on Earth today. Some previous studies have show…

December 17, 2018
Giant black spots appeared on the sun
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Giant black spots appeared on the sun

Scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) discovered a group of dark spots using data from Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA's solar tracking spacecraft. The group…

December 17, 2018
Mars has been covered by water like Earth
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Mars has been covered by water like Earth

Mars was once covered by water like ours today, according to research by scientists at Georgia Tech University (USA). One of the reasons water cannot exist on Mars today…

December 17, 2018
Catch the light from super-earth
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Catch the light from super-earth

Light from a planet twice the size of the Earth has reached Spitzer's lens in an event known as astronomical achievement by astronomers. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope c…

December 17, 2018