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Our solar system in the galaxy is rare
When people search farther in the universe, discover more planets other than the sun, many people wonder how unique our solar system is. Astronauts on the trip
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Announcement of new manned spacecraft design
The first official photo of a manned Russian-European co-operative ship has just been announced. It was born to replace the Soyuz rocket, which is still used by Russia.
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The star that everyone missed
An X-ray observatory discovered a star exploding in the Milky Way, but observers have not noticed this event at all.
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Are we doing the dirty space?
According to an article published in May in Microbiology Today, life in space has become a certainty even more intimate than what we still perceive. Since the race into…
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Phoenix approaches the area that may have ice on Mars
The US Phoenix probe after a week of landing on Mars, has now approached an area that experts predict could have ice - a testament to the sign of life on Mars.
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Quasars: 'final test' for relativity?
Until now astronomers have received very convincing evidence that objects of high mass bend space-time significantly, according to the predictions of general relativity.
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ISS has the largest and most modern laboratory
Yesterday morning 4.6 (VN time), the astronauts' first space walk from Discovery ship ended with the successful assembly of the main US $ 3 billion laboratory that carri…
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The space probe shows that Mars is cooler inside.
Recent observations from NASA's Mars probe spacecraft show that the outermost shell and the upper crust of Mars's core are harder and colder than previously thought.
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Attached 'eyes' to Kibo laboratory
In the morning of 6.6 (Vietnam time), astronauts from Discovery ship finished their second space trip out of the expected three flights. During this 7-11-minute stretch…
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Create a center to deflect meteorites
Iowa State University, USA, has just established a research center that brings together scientists to find the best way to divert the orbits of dangerous cosmic objects…
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Pluto has a new name: Plutoid
Pluto, downgraded from the 2006 planetary position, had a consolation reward yesterday - it and such tiny planets will be called plutoid collectively.
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Milky Way has only 2, not 4 arms
Living right in the heart of the Milky Way, it's hard for us to imagine the true picture of our galaxy. For years, astronomers have drawn a lovely spiral galaxy with fou…
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New method of calculating the weight of remote black holes
At the June 2 meeting of the American Astronomical Community at St. Louis, the researchers gave astronomers a simple new way to understand black holes about 8 billion li…
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White dwarf missing in planetary nebula
Let's see this as a case of the missing dwarf. A group of astronomers must perform interstellar field investigations. They had two suspects, signs of attack and assault,…