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March 26, 1936: Successfully built the world's largest telescope
In 1936, the world's first 5m diameter glass lens was successfully built and shipped by train from Corning, New York to California for Hale telescope installation. Palom…
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The plan bombed American volcanic eruption in 1935
Thomas Jagger, the founder of the Hawaii Volcanic Observatory, believes a big explosion could collapse lava columns and block its flow.
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The storm blew away the scientist on the meteorological station
The winds of 180km / h caused the scientist to take only a few steps before being blown to the ground.
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NASA: We are experiencing the peak of El Nino
NASA's Earth Observatory has made a remarkable statement about the El Niño phenomenon. The present time is confirmed to have reached the climax of the phenomenon of abno…
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Earth's temperature is constantly increasing
Use updated data on temperatures taken from thousands of terrestrial weather observatories and a lot of sea and commercial buoys, scientists at the US National Oceanic a…
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Rare rainbow suddenly appeared in the desert
An amazing natural phenomenon has just happened in the Atacama desert.
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Pavlof volcano continued to erupt
Alaska volcanic observatory said a cloud of ash, steam and gas continuously appeared from Pavlof crater. The cloud is about 6,000 meters above sea level and now moves to…
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The red rainbow appears throughout Europe
If aiming for superior cameras to the sky these days, Europeans can admire the countless red rainbows in the sky.
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Discovery of carbon and life in the heart of the Earth
The discovery of scientists working on a project called Deep Carbon Observatory, a study of carbon movement below the surface of the Earth, suggests that space is not th…
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The observatory is useless because of light pollution
People and scientists cannot use China's oldest observatory at night because of light pollution.
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The Arctic ice will disappear in the next 10 years?
Dr. Seymour Laxon and his colleagues at the University of London's Polar Observatory and Model Center conducted a study on the melting speed of ice in the Arctic through…
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Two more years, the Earth enters a cold period
The Head of the Sun Research Department of Pulkovo Observatory, the Russian Academy of Sciences - PhD in Mathematics Li Habibullo Abdusamatov said, since 2014 the Earth…
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Strong earthquake in Vanuatu, Philippines
The Hong Kong Observatory said that at 16:40 GMT GMT, the afternoon of February 5 had an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the offshore island of Vanuatu, South Pacific.
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GMT time may be replaced
The world's leading scientists are meeting in the UK to consider the possibility of replacing GMT by other timers.
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Earthquakes in Turkey killed 1,000 people
The Kandilli Seismic and Observatory Research Institute based in Istanbul estimated that between 500 and 1,000 people were killed in a 6.6-magnitude quake that rocked th…