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Close up of dead star
European astronomers have announced the image of a star about 3,300 light-years from Earth, emitting the last bright light before disappearing forever.
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Moonlight will hinder observing Lyrids meteor shower
On the night of 21, dawn on April 22 is the maximum time of the Lyrids meteor shower, but Vietnamese astronomers will be hard to observe this phenomenon.
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Suddenly found water in the universe
US and Canadian scientists have found steam and carbon oxides in the atmosphere of a planet 129 light-years from Earth.
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NASA telescope set a new record
Space Agency's US Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) has captured the most distant star image in the universe so far, especially when the star exploded 10 billion years ago.
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Discover new forms of supernovae
American astronomers say it has discovered a new form of supernova that is not the same as the previous two forms of this epic cosmic phenomenon.
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The star is older than the universe
In a discovery that surprised many people, the oldest star is longer than the universe. Stars HD 140283, also known as Methuselah stars, are no stranger to Earth astrono…
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Discover the nearby neighborhood of the solar system
An American astronomer said he had found a pair of new stars lying close to the solar system, and also the nearest neighbor to be discovered since 1917.
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Detecting water on a distant planet
HR 8799c, the name of the planet, about 130 light-years from Earth. It is quite far from its own star so astronomers can observe it easily.
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The supermassive black hole rotates at the speed of light
For the first time astronomers have measured the rotation speed of a supermassive black hole, and it rotates at nearly the speed of light.
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Witness the birth of the planet
Chilean astronomers said that for the first time they observed directly a planet picturing inside a disk of gas and thick dust at the star system 335 light years away.
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Decoding super-fast stars in 'Ngan river'
Last month astronomers discovered six super-fast stars flying very fast near the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, where the dust density was so great that the…
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Determine the origin of Russian meteorites
Astronomers have speculated that the meteorite's early residence in central Russia on February 15 is a meteorite belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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NASA discovered the smallest planet in the universe
The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-37b, is only slightly larger than the Moon and takes 13 days to complete an orbit around its star.
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Asteroids are named Wikipedia
The asteroid 274,301, discovered by Ukrainian astronomers on August 25, 2008, has just been named Wikipedia in honor of this open encyclopedia.