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Super big project NASA: Fly to the Sun.
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Super big project NASA: Fly to the Sun.

NASA experts started an unprecedented big project about studying the Sun. They will send this planet a Solar Probe Plus, a solar device close to the solar crown and work…

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
Record super-large solar vortex
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Record super-large solar vortex

The image of a tornado 5 times the size of the Earth created by solar energy was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) camera.

December 17, 2018
Comet 'joke' the sun
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Comet 'joke' the sun

Space reported Swan comet stars plunge into the sun atmosphere on the evening of March 14 in the US time (corresponding to the morning and noon on March 15, Vietnam time…

December 17, 2018
He worries about the solar storm
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He worries about the solar storm

Among Britain's highest security threats is the flu, coastal flooding, terrorist attacks, and two new items: the volcanic eruption in Iceland and the solar storm, accord…

December 17, 2018
Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth
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Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth

Vesta - one of the largest asteroids in the solar system with a diameter of nearly 530 km - has many characteristics similar to rocky planets like Earth, discovered by a…

December 17, 2018
Two storms from strong down to earth
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Two storms from strong down to earth

Scientists warn that power transmission, artificial satellite positioning and aircraft orientation may be disturbing in the next few days after two extremely strong stor…

December 17, 2018
How does the broom star constitute water on Earth?
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How does the broom star constitute water on Earth?

One of the biggest mysteries about planets is how water appears on Earth. Back in the time when our planet was formed 4.5 billion years ago, the heat from the Sun caused…

December 17, 2018
Extreme storm made from
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Extreme storm made from

Due to its activity on Venus's orbit, Venus Express is closer to the sun than Earth. So it caught the huge flow of particles from the solar storm. At 1:40 on March 8 at…

December 17, 2018
Seeing UFO spacecraft is
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Seeing UFO spacecraft is

Photographs of the sun on March 12 with a telescope show a faint object roughly the size of a planet connected to the sun by a dark colored wire.

December 17, 2018
Nomadic planets flood the Milky Way
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Nomadic planets flood the Milky Way

Our galaxy may contain more than 100,000 planets that move freely, not belonging to any solar system. That is the conclusion drawn from the study of planets

December 17, 2018