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Perseids is a high intensity meteor shower. It can produce about 50-80 meteors per hour at its peak in a dark night. The shower runs annually from 17th July to 24th August and usually it peak on 12-13th August. Meteors seems to radiate from the constellation Perseus.
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Today Cassini satellite of NASA started ring grazing orbit.
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New Horizon space craft of NASA has taken images of frozen nitrogen glaciers on Pluto which carry many floating hills. This hills may be fragment of water ice.
The size of these hills are one to several kilometer wide.
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Scientists discovered signs of liquid water on the surface of Mars.
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India successfully launched multi-wavelength astronomy satellite Astrosat.
A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C30) carried Astrosat and other six satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
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New Horizons spacecraft of NASA is scheduled to arrive at Pluto on 14th July 2015 after a nine and a half year journey. New Horizons will be the first spacecraft to visit Pluto. The spacecraft will give us our first close-up views of Pluto and its moons.
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Various NASA instruments, such as Voyager I and II, INJUN 1, ISEE 1 and HAWKEYE space probe, recorded electromagnetic waves close to many planets and their Moons and send those signals back to Earth. These sounds from various space crafts are translated into sounds we can hear.
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India made history becoming the first country in the world to place a spacecraft to Martian orbit on the very first attempt. India also is the first country in Asia to achieve this success.
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A team from Australian National University (ANU) discovered a star which is the oldest known star in the Universe. The discovery made with the SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran. This discovery should revolutionize human understanding of beginning and evolution of this Universe following the Big Bang.
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European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has confirmed the sign of water vapor around the dwarf planet Ceres. It is the first clear detection of water vapor in the object around the asteroid belt. It is also one of the few bodies in the solar system which hold this property.
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The curiosity rover of NASA found fresh evidence of ancient fresh water lake on Mars. The rover also discovered that this ancient Martian lake had the perfect chemical ingredients to sustain microbial life form about 3.6 billion years ago.
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Comet ISON will come to closest approach to the Sun on 28 November 2013 at a distance of 0.0124 AU (1,860,000 km) from the center point of the Sun. If we consider the solar radius of 695,500 km, comet ISON will come approximately 1,165,000 km above the Sun's surface at its closest approach.
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Scientists confirms that Voyager 1 probe finally went out of Solar system and become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space beyond Solar system.
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It is circulated in many social networking sites for some time that Mars will look as big as Moon on 27th August. It will be a really a great view if this is true but unfortunately the story is a hoax.
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Two Indian scientists, Subhashis Roy from NCRA and Sabyasachi Pal from ICSP have recently discovered a supernova remnant named as G354.4+0.0 which is only a few hundred years old.
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Now you can say hello to Extraterrestrial Civilization. Not only that, you will be also able to send your customized message to a specific target in the space.
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NASA radar image confirms presence of a small moon around Earth passing Asteroid 1998 QE2.
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Cassini spacecraft of NASA captured a stunning picture of a giant hurricane in Saturn. This is the first close-up, visible-light picture of a huge hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
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Northern hemisphere viewers are just few days away from the first view of the comet Pan STARRS. Observers in southern hemisphere already witnessed the beauty of the comet. Low in southern hemisphere sky the comet has displayed very obvious tails, and was easily viewable with naked eyes, even from light polluted towns and cities.
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Today Russia declare intention to send a female astronaut into space. This is the first time in last two decades Russia will try woman in space.
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President of India Pranab Mukherjee announced plan to launch its first space mission to Mars this year.
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Russian scientists discovered more than 50 fragments of the meteor that exploded above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk and injured about 1,200 people. Preliminary tests are ongoing to find information on the contents of these fragments.
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NASA scientists calculated that the meteor which hit siberia on 15th of February stuck the ground with a force equivalent to about 30 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. The meteor was made of 55 feet wide rock with approximately 10,000 tonnes mass. It is estimated that the energy released as the meteor's disintigrated in the atmosphere was about 500 kilotons.
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A huge meteor stuck Siberia on 15th of February. More than 1200 people are reported to be injured amongst which more than 200 are childrens. Thousands of buildings are also damaged by this event. Such a huge lose by a meteor is unprecedental in modern age.
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A huge Asteroid is approaching towards Earth and on 15th February 2013 it will come as close as 27,680 km from Earth which is less than 3.5 Earth radius. The size of the rocky asteroid is approximately of a football ground (about 45m) and it will go at a speed of 8km/s near Earth.
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The scientists from NASA have discovered the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is just 1000 years old and it is located only 26,000 light-years away from Earth.
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Now you can visit Moon with your loved one for only $1.5 billion. Golden Spike is a private company, launched by former NASA executives and they are planning to send people to the Moon by 2020. It will take 1.5 billion for two to visit moon.
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Encouraged by the success of Curiosity rover mission, today NASA announces multi-year plan to study mars. This plan includes a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.
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Curiosity rover mission of NASA has found evidences of a stream that once ran across the area on Mars. Earlier, there were some evidences of presence of water in Mars, specially in pole region of the planet but this new evidence of images of rocks containing ancient stream bed gravels is directly shows presence of water in this planet.
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Saturn moon Titan shows huge seasonal change as Earth. Dr Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France has analyzed data of Titan gathered over 30 years.
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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) made history after they successfully launched PSLV-C21, marking the 100th space mission by them. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully blasted off into space from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The rocket carried into space two foreign satellites, SPOT 6, a French 712 kg remote sensing satellite and Proiteres, a 15 kg Japanese satellite.
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Neil Alden Armstrong died on 25th August 2012 at the age of 82 in Cincinnati due to blocked coronary arteries.
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was the first person who stepped on moon.
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First time scientists are able to image planet outside our solar system around star HR 8799. A team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, took a picture of the system with the Gemini telescope in 2008 directly imaging three giant planets. The team revisited the star system in 2009-2010 with Keck II telescope and discovered a fourth planet in the system.
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