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Huge spy satellite
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Huge spy satellite

The Pentagon is embarking on a giant spy satellite design that can obscure any telescoping telescopes and existing reconnaissance satellites.

December 17, 2018
Milestones of astronomy history
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Milestones of astronomy history

Inventing telescopes, spectroscopic applications or for the first time predicting solar eclipses are memorable milestones of astronomical research history.

December 17, 2018
Europe postponed the mission to map the Milky Way
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Europe postponed the mission to map the Milky Way

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it will postpone the mission to launch a galaxy mapping spacecraft due to a technical issue involving components on board, redOrbit…

December 17, 2018
Boomerang - The coldest region in the universe
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Boomerang - The coldest region in the universe

International astronomers have just confirmed the Boomerang nebula, 5,000 light-years from Earth, the coldest region in the universe with a temperature of about -272.2 d…

December 17, 2018
Beautiful 3D images of the galaxy
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Beautiful 3D images of the galaxy

This is the best hologram of the galaxy ever created based on data from the VISTA telescopes of the European Space Observatory (ESO).

December 17, 2018
NASA planetarium expert broken
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NASA planetarium expert broken

On August 15, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced it was unable to repair the space ship Kepler and it would not be able to continue hunting for planets outside t…

December 17, 2018
Put the telescope on the moon
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Put the telescope on the moon

Two private organizations have planned to carry out the first mission on the south pole of the moon to set up telescopes on the summit in 2016.

December 17, 2018
Aliens communicate by laser?
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Aliens communicate by laser?

American scientists hypothesize that aliens do not communicate with radio waves but use lasers to transmit data. Scientists hope to find evidence for this hypothesis soo…

December 17, 2018