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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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On April 25, 2013, a partial lunar eclipse will take place. This is the first of three lunar eclipses in 2013. This one is the second shortest partial eclipse of the Moon for the 21st century, lasting only 27 minutes.
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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 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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