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Elefsina: The “Cultural Capital of Europe” is turning into a new tourist destination
The city of Elefsina is turning into a new cultural destination of Attica thanks to the organization "Elefsina 2023 Cultural Capital of Europe".
Gate of Hell opens to visitors
The Gate of Hell, (Plutonium), which was unearthed in 2013 by the Italian excavation team in Pamukkale, one of Türkiye's UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, has been opened to visitors. Plutonium, which is called the "gateway to the land of the dead" in ancient sources, began hosting hundreds of local and foreign tourists on the very first day.
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Robot guide leads visitors in a Greek cave
Persephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to.
Billed as the world's first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors since mid-July to the Alistrati Cave in northern Greece.
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Gate of Hell to open to visitors
The Gate of Hell (Plutonium), which was discovered in 2013 in the excavations in the ancient city of Hierapolis, located next to Pamukkale in western Turkey, and which was considered as the "gateway to the land of the dead" in the ancient world, is set to be opened to visitors this year.
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Mysterious "Planet 9"
The furore surrounding the solar system's theoretical 'Planet 9' reached new heights after a University of Michigan researcher discovered evidence that may shed light on the existence of the elusive world beyond Neptune.
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Distant world orbits beyond Pluto
Astronomers have spotted a distant world that orbits far beyond Pluto, in the extreme reaches of the Solar System.
The object, known informally as L91, may be in the process of gradually shifting its way inward from the Oort cloud — a reservoir of comets and other icy bodies — into the equally icy Kuiper belt. No object has ever been seen doing this.
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Getty Museum gives back the head of Hades to Italy
The head of Hades, Greek God of the Underworld finally returned home to Sicily, Italy on Friday after almost three years of negotiations with the Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, U.S.
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Astronomers discover new 9th planet in our solar system that’s ten times the size of earth! (vid)
Astronomers have noticed that some distant objects far beyond Pluto are behaving oddly and are speculating as to whether there may be a huge ninth planet ten times larger than earth at the edge of our solar system. Nicknamed Planet Nine, the structure has an extremely elongated orbit that takes from 10,000 to 20,000 years to swing once around the sun.
A breathtaking window into Pluto’s geology (pics+vid)
The best photos from the New Horizons spacecraft that buzzed Pluto earlier this year were released by NASA providing resolutions of less than 100 yards per pixel.
NASA also published a video compiled from the sharpest views of Pluto seen so far from New Horizons.
The new images show details of craters and mountains, along with icy plains.
NASA releases 'best close-ups' of Pluto
The US space agency has released a series of sharp Pluto snapshots, billing them as the best close-ups of the dwarf planet we may see for decades.
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