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Comet dust contains organic matter
An international team of scientists analyzed the dust particles collected from comets. It is found that comet dust contains different compounds. After analyzing the come…
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Clouds have strange shapes
On February 18, 2003, astronauts on the ISS International Space Station saw a beautiful sight: These are noctilucent clouds, or night clouds, which are long in shape.
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The Hubble telescope demonstrates the theory of planet formation
According to the results of a group of American scientists published in the October 2006 issue of Astronomy Journal, the images obtained by Hubble Space Telescope provid…
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Detecting the vents on Mars
The image from a Mars-orbiting camera revealed the flow of CO2 sprayed at 100 miles per hour through the planet's southernmost ice. These circuits throw sand and dust up…
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Earth inspires' 40,000 tons of cosmic dust every year
About 40,000 tons of cosmic dust and matter fall to Earth every year, and this has begun at a stable level in the past 30,000 years, a recent discovery by US and German…
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America plans to conquer Mars from the moon
For the first time since 1972, the US again plans to fly to the Moon. But this time is not the same short-term flight as the Apolo. Astronauts plan to build a long-term…
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Many unexpected findings from comet dust
According to the analysis of comet dust samples brought back from space by American Stardust spacecraft, it was surprising in the scientific world. These comet dust cont…
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Detecting two major solar systems
Astronomers said yesterday they have just obtained evidence of two very large solar systems - giant stars surrounded by large disks of dust in forming planets. These clo…
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NASA finds volunteers
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has said it will mobilize a volunteer army to search for stellar dust
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The Stardust tank compartment successfully landed
A hull filled with comet dust successfully landed on Earth at 1657 (Hanoi time, January 15). This landing took place after the compartment left Stardust's mother ship th…
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An explosive asteroid affected the Earth's climate during the Miocene period
A group of American scientists found the undersea of the explosion of a large asteroid with debris drifting to Earth could make our planet's climate cooler 8.3 million…
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The messenger of the distant universe has come to Earth?
The secret of the formation of the solar system will soon be clear? For the first time, dust samples from distant universes contained in comets have been collected on Ea…
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There is a small solar system!
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is about to be the birth of the smallest solar system: from astronomical observations from the ground as well as from space…
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NASA spacecraft approached the meteorite that could collide with the Earth
On December 3, the Osiris-Rex probe was only 19 km away from the Bennu meteorite and could even get closer in the coming days, before entering orbit around meteorite on…