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'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
Europe spent billions of explorers Moc Tinh
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Europe spent billions of explorers Moc Tinh

The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to spend 1 billion euros to build a modern probe for the mission of Jupiter - the largest planet in the Solar System, and its…

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
Russia postponed a year of Moon Luna-Glob mission
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Russia postponed a year of Moon Luna-Glob mission

The space research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the country's Luna-Glob mission will make an attempt to land the Moon for the first time in 2015, on…

December 17, 2018
Russia ready for the Google Lunar X-Prize race
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Russia ready for the Google Lunar X-Prize race

The Russian team consists of 30 scientists participating in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition held by Google. Victory will belong to the first team to bring the autom…

December 17, 2018
Life migrates from the earth
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Life migrates from the earth

For years, scientists have hypothesized that bacteria might have been brought to earth on a comet or meteorite, seeding life today. But the panspermia theory poses the o…

December 17, 2018
The earth has thousands of moons
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The earth has thousands of moons

Scientists have modeled supercomputers to track the orbit of 10 million meteorites passing through the Earth System - the Moon. The orbits of the Sun with Earth-like orb…

December 17, 2018
Cassini flies close to the moon of Saturn
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Cassini flies close to the moon of Saturn

On March 28 (VN time), the Cassini probe has flown across Saturn's moon Enceladus to the lowest level ever. Scientists think there may be an ocean on this moon.

December 17, 2018
Solar eclipse can change the weather
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Solar eclipse can change the weather

Wind blows more slowly and changes direction every time an eclipse occurs, a study shows. Real eclipse happens when the moon, the sun and the earth line up with the moon…

December 17, 2018
China has started producing Hang Nga 3 ships
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China has started producing Hang Nga 3 ships

THX quoted China's moon exploration project management agency as saying that the country has begun designing and manufacturing the third Lunar exploration ship, Hang Nga…

December 17, 2018
The violent evolution of the Moon
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The violent evolution of the Moon

The moon is thought to have formed since a Mars-sized planet hit our Earth 4.5 billion years ago, creating billions of tons of hot matter in the universe and forming the…

December 17, 2018
Titan Saturn Moon: 1,000 years a rain
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Titan Saturn Moon: 1,000 years a rain

According to recent analysis results, in many places on Saturn's moon Titan, every 1000 years on average there is rain. But unlike the rain on Earth, the rain on this mo…

December 17, 2018
Jupiter 'grows' 2 more new moons
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Jupiter 'grows' 2 more new moons

The total number of 'natural satellites' orbiting this giant planet has been raised to 66, astronomers have revealed. Codenamed S / 2011 J1 and S / 2011 J2, these two mo…

December 17, 2018