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Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...
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An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...
The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.