Set To Be Launched In 2017, A Craft With 15Inch Heat Shield Will Come Within 20M Miles Of Solar Surface

London: For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from Nasa, is planning to send two space missions to explore the brightest star.

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Lunar Oasis: Aiming To Grow Fresh Vegetables & Fruits In Space, Scientists Unveil Bell Jar Greenhouse

Tucson (Arizona): Astronauts

food The secret of cheese For the past 800 years, farmers in Gouda, Netherlands, were making a yellow creamy cheese, from cow

Galileo upturned the Biblical theory of the universe On February 13, 1633, Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Catholic Church

AHMEDABAD: The sun is 3,30,330 times larger than the earth! The sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years and it takes only eight minutes for sunlight to travel from to earth. These and many more exciting facts about sun were explored and shared by students and visitors during the Nasa sun-earth day celebration at Gujarat Science City on Friday.

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