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Universe Undiscovered

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              Have you ever wondered what is above this vast blue sky? I am sure you would have and also would have tried to imagine how fascinating that would be. You are just one person among 7.8 billion people living on one of the planet which is revolving around one of the billions of stars (only in the Milky Way) which is in one of the trillions of galaxies present in a universe. Whereas the number of universes in the multiverse is still unknown. Sorry for that brainstorming, but now you just got an idea of how vast is the space that is above those pretty blue skies is.               Mars is 104.89 million km away from the Earth and that is a huge distance. On the other hand the radius of the observable universe is 46.508 billion light years. 1 light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. We surely have discovered billions of galaxies, trillions of stars and infinite planets but stil...
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Corona virus - Everything that you need to know

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             Coronavirus (Covid-19) is an infectious disease caused by a virus. The first outbreak of this disease dates back to 17 November 2019 when the first case was registered in Wuhan, China. It was first considered a pneumonia outbreak, but at the end of 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave it an interim name of 2019-nCoV. Later the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named it SARS-CoV-2. From that day this virus has spread all over the world. Today there are about 7.5 million/75 lakh cases of Coronavirus in 216 countries and 400k/4 lakh casualties as of 13 March 2020.             Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans , these viruses cause respiratory track infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild infections can include common cold and more lethal infections can cause SARS, MERS and Covid-19. Symptoms in other sp...
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