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@busser Oct 17, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

Account for sale

All good things must come to an end but all bad things can continue forever. I would like to sell Steemit account Busser because I have not time for blogging and do not like to keep things I don't ne…

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@busser Oct 10, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

Io, Europa, Africa and newborn iceberg

News from the Solar System. Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter, captured this image on Sept 1 2017 during its eigth flyby of the gas giant. Juno's orbit has form of elongated ellipse and never get clo…

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@busser Sep 13, 2017, 11:45 AM UTC

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft traveling to asteroid Bennu spotted from Earth

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was launched in September 2016 by Atlas-5 rocket. It will travel to a half-kilometer sized asteroid Bennu (101955) and bring samples back to Earth for study in 2023. Image: NASA…

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@busser Aug 11, 2017, 3:37 PM UTC

Peatland wildfires of 2017 appear to be Greenland's biggest fire on record

Since the beginnig of August west of Greenland, an island with 80% of the surface occupied by ice shield, is covered by gray smoke from peatland fires. Image: ESA Peat fires are difficult to stop, of…

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@busser Aug 10, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

The nearby sun-like star with four Earth-sized planets

Tau Ceti is a star in the constellation Cetus located 12 light years (3.7 parsecs) away. With mass 78% of our Sun and spectral type G8.5 it is one of two Sun-like stars in 15 light years range. Tau C…

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@busser Aug 7, 2017, 1:44 PM UTC

Earth-sized storm on Neptune

Bright system of clouds first seen on Neptune in June is a storm system nearly the size of Earth. It was discovered by Ned Molter, a UC Berkeley astronomy graduate student. His idea was to prove that…

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@busser Aug 3, 2017, 9:28 AM UTC

Lunatix plans to develop reality game on the Moon with jumping nanobots

Lunatix, a team of space engineers, developed jumping nano-rover that would be used in augmented reality scenarios on the Moon. The main idea is to explore the Moon with the help of the huge game ind…

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@busser Aug 1, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

Exoplanets located in habitable zone may never be as hospitable as Earth

It was thought previously that exoplanets orbiting stars similar to our Sun would go through water-rich phases when young star starts warming, becomes Sun-like, and melts the ice on planets located i…

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@busser Jul 30, 2017, 11:27 AM UTC

Earth's deforestation rate - stats up to end of 2015

Project Global Forest Watch (GFW) monitors changes in Earth's forest cover analysing satellite images with resolution 30 meters per pixel. Previous data set, released in 2013, revealed that area of f…

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@busser Jul 27, 2017, 12:13 PM UTC

Quest to reach Alpha Centauri starts with launch of world's smallest spacecraft

Breakthrough Starshot, a program funded by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking to develop and launch interstellar missions, flew its first prototypes of the future space probes - the smallest ever launch…

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