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Discovering the planet is nearly the same weight as the Earth
Astronomers are looking for a world like Earth that will not need to search further than even our closest star system - Alpha Centauri.
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Close up of galactic conflict
Astronomers saw a pair of galaxies rushing into each other in the distant universe, a future image of the Milky Way itself for several billion years.
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The 84 million star image is at the center of the universe
On October 24, Chilean astronomers said that in a research program on the Milky Way, they created an image with about 84 million stars in the center of the universe.
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Lonely stars
American astronomers believe that mysterious infrared halo across the night sky may be related to isolated stars outside the galaxy's borders.
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Uncommonly rare spiral-shaped structure of cosmic dust
On October 10, astronomers announced a rare image of a cosmic dust structure and spiral gas surrounding a giant red star. This is the first such a structure discovered b…
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For the first time, the planet has 4 suns
Astronomers have discovered a planet whose sky has four different suns. This is the first time such a planet has been found.
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First discovered two black holes in the constellation
Stefan Umbreit, an astronomer at Northwestern University in the United States, and colleagues found black holes after analyzing data of Messier 22, the constellation abo…
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New findings help prove the theory of black holes
American astronomers from the University of California (Los Angeles, UCLA, USA) on October 4 found that a star with orbit moves very close to the giant black hole in the…
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Decode the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
According to Space, astronomers used the AU unit to measure every distance in the solar system. For example, Jupiter is 5.2 AU from the Sun while Neptune is 30,07 AU fro…
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First discovered the planet in the constellation
Pr0201-b and Pr0211-b, the names of two new planets found, about 550 light-years from the Earth and belonging to the constellation Cancer.
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'Devilish stars' appeared during the week
Belonging to the constellation Majestic (Perseus), Algol has been called the 'demon star' since ancient times. Algol's name is derived from the word al-ghul, meaning 'fe…
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Take a picture of the meteorite
Amateur astronomer George Hall, from Dallas (USA), used the webcam to record a video of the moment Saturn collided with a meteorite in the universe on September 10 last.
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Discover new 'Super Earth'
Astronomers have discovered a new super Earth in the area that can survive life around the red dwarf Gliese 163.
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Will the sun 'devour' the Earth?
International astronomers have found the first evidence of the star process
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The universe will gradually disappear?
Well-known Australian astronomer Brian Schmidt, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011, predicts that the current universe will gradually disappear within 100 billi…