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Moon dust is full of radioactivity
Settling on the moon is a human goal in an effort to set foot in the universe. However, Earth's natural satellites are not very friendly to humans, after experts discove…
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Giant pupils in the universe
The star, known as U Camelopardis and in the constellation Camelopardalis (Giraffe), is in the final stage of life, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Helium gas in i…
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Secrets of strange land on the Moon
When Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, they found dust on the Moon in a state of silence for millennia. But when disturbing them, even though the Moon's g…
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Star 'grilled' child planet
The KIC 12557548 star may be spinning its planet at unbelievably fast speeds, causing the
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New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars
New photographs, introduced March 28, include infrared images of the galaxy taken from surveying the sky from two different telescopes, the first being the infrared tele…
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Detecting 'ghost dust' on red planet
NASA's Mars spy satellite captured high-quality images of 'ghost dust' that appeared along the surface of Mars. The phenomenon of 'ghost dust' also appeared on Earth, ma…
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Pink nebula Omega
The new image of the Omega Nebula captured by the Southern Observatory (ESO) VLT telescope is one of the clearest shots taken from the ground. Pink dust in the center of…
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Revealing the day of the sun
Astronomer Bill Snyder photographed the Dumbbell nebula, a cloud of dust of a star, showing us the prospect of our solar system's apocalypse.
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Hundreds of moon rocks missing
Several hundred samples of rocks taken from the moon have disappeared in the past four decades, the Inspector General of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced.
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Meteor shower peaks tonight
Taurid meteor showers appear from late October to mid November. It is listed as a weak meteor shower due to low-frequency meteorites - an average of 7 tracks per hour. T…
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Earth is about to lose the Moon?
Does the YU55 Asteroid 2005 asteroid, which is about the size of four football fields, can plunge into the moon and destroy the
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Rescue is wrong because the meteor is a plane
A meteor falling into the sea in the UK at high speed made many people think it was an airplane and reported to the authorities.
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96 stars were discovered in the Milky Way
International astronomers have discovered 96 new cluster stars hidden behind dust in the Milky Way after studying data from the VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observator…
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Spot the star shooting 'water bullets' in the universe
New astronomers discovered a young, sun-like star lying 750 light-years away from our earth, with taps that fired water bullets with lightning speed to the surrounding s…
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America spent a billion dollars to get cosmic dust
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced that they would launch an unmanned spacecraft to space to get material from meteorites.