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astromaniac

@astromaniac

My second account. Articles only in English.

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astromaniac
@astromaniac Apr 15, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

NASA InSight: Engineers are still studying the problem with the HP3 probe

## Researchers are still trying to understand why one of the InSight's main instruments is stuck just below the surface of Mars. --- Heat probe (HP3). Photo taken on March 19, 2019. Local sunny time…

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@astromaniac Apr 1, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

Meteor explosion on the Bering Sea

## On December 18, 2018, a meteor with a diameter of about 10 meters entered the atmosphere and exploded with energy close to about 10 atomic bombs! According to NASA, this explosion was the second l…

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@astromaniac Mar 29, 2019, 11:02 AM UTC

Movements of stars in the sky

## Being outdoors at night, it seems that the stars are completely immobile. However, it is enough to observe at intervals of a few hours or take a picture with a long exposure time to see that this…

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@astromaniac Mar 25, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

Charon: The last moon

## Charon is such a large moon in relation to its dwarf planet that with Pluto they are considered to be a dual planetary system. When NASA's New Horizons probe performed its historic flight in the P…

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@astromaniac Mar 22, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

The Earth's magnetic pole is changing its location faster and faster!

# The latest research shows that the north magnetic pole began to move unexpectedly from northern Canada towards Siberia with increasing speed. --- Schematic representation of the Earth's magnetic fi…

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@astromaniac Mar 19, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

Pluto - dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt

# I will describe you the last (not official) planet of our Solar System. --- High resolution image of Pluto in enhanced color By NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwes…

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@astromaniac Mar 15, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

Cosmic rocks: Asteroids and meteoroids

# In our solar system there are millions of rock bodies of varying sizes, ranging from a small grain of sand to huge objects with a diameter of up to 1,000 kilometers! --- Asteroid Ida photographed b…

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@astromaniac Mar 11, 2019, 8:27 PM UTC

Neptune - giant at the ends of the solar system

## I will describe for you this time the 8th planet of our Solar System. It is the smallest and most distant of gaseous giants. However, it arouses great interest among astronomers, because it has a…

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@astromaniac Mar 4, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

Uranus - mysterious giant

# I will describe for you this time the 7th planet of our Solar System. Uranus is a mysterious blue-green world that has only recently revealed its secrets to us. It is the third largest gas giant, a…

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@astromaniac Feb 25, 2019, 7:55 PM UTC

Saturn - an amazing planet!

# I will describe for you this time the 6th planet of our Solar System. My favorite! Saturn has a lot to do with Jupiter, but the great ring system makes it unmistakable with any other solar system o…

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