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'Hungry' threatens the Earth
The earth may be hit by a massive meteorite in 160 years. That is the warning of Italian scientists, posted on the latest New Scientist digital issue.
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The satellite crashed each other to threaten the universe
Tens of thousands of debris from a collision between two Russian and American satellites is flying in space at breakneck speed, threatening the safety of satellites in n…
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Canada participates in manufacturing the largest radio telescope
Engineers and astrophysicists from Calgary University of Canada will participate in the world's largest radio telescope project.
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Cosmic Dawn
The images developed by scientists at Durham University's Cosmology Institute represent the
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The oldest and coldest brown dwarf in the galaxy
Our galaxy-like spiral galaxies are made up of several structural elements. The most prominent part of them is a flat disk in stars and gas that creates graceful long sp…
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Life can exist on tens of thousands of planets
Some British scientists still believe that nearly 38,000 planets in the universe can nourish life.
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The tragic fate of the first generation of stars
The first stars in the universe used to contain millions of microscopic black holes.
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The young star is like the early Sun
CoRoT satellite recently observed a star similar to the Sun at the age of about 500 million years, called CoRoTExo-2a.
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Stars sparkle through photos
NGC 2264 is located 2,600 light-years from Earth in the faint constellation Unicorn of Monoceros, not far from the familiar Hunter constellation of Orion.
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Last minute on space shuttle Columbia
When the first alarm bell rang on February 1, 2003, the crew of seven on the US Columbia spacecraft only had an extra minute to live.
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Astronomers map the history of the Universe
British astronomers are trying to expand our knowledge of the history of the Universe with a new project to understand the beginning and formation of galaxies.
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The galaxy is big and heavy
For decades, scientists believe that the galaxy - the home of the Earth - is just a child next to the neighbor Andromeda giant.
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Jupiter's weight in the formation phase is very fast
Jupiter gains weight quickly when young. It is required to do so because the material from which Jupiter formed disappears after only a few million years, according to a…
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5 years in Mars
NASA's 6-planet Mars self-propelled self-propelled survey device still works well after 5 years of landing on the red planet.
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The central image of the galaxy through the Hubble lens
The multi-colored infrared image of our Milky Way galaxy center shows a new cluster of stars and complex structural details in the ionized gas swirling around the 300 li…