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NEMESIS
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What is Nemesis ? It's the name of a star which is supposed to pass close to our solar system every 26 million years and provokes mass extinctions. Nemesis might have been, for example, the cause of the dinosaurs extinction which happened 65 million years ago.Our aim, through the use of the most advanced technologies, is to give a vision, as complete as possible, of the Universe referring to how it was imagined in ancient time, how it appears and how it really is.Thanks to the web potentialities the users can interact in a dynamic way with an entity, the Universe, which isn't static at all.The only thing that you won't be able to get is the absence of gravity !