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Discover new form of planetary system
Based on NASA's Kepler Mission program data, astronomers announced the discovery of two new
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Uncover unprecedented galaxy clusters
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a cluster of galaxies while in its infancy. This is the most remote solar system galaxy ever observed, NASA s…
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Astronomy with new fields: Dark matter
Astronomers have for the first time drawn a map of dark matter with the widest scale ever observed. Their findings reveal a complex cosmic grid of dark matter and galaxi…
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Venus glides across the sun
In June astronomers will have the opportunity to admire the sight of Venus gliding across the sun. The same event will only happen after more than a century.
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Supernova origin
With the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have lifted the long-standing mysterious veil of a star form, or its predecessor, to cause a supernova explosion in a galaxy…
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There are billions of planets like Earth
Up to 10 billion stars in the Milky Way have satellites orbiting in an orbit suitable for life.
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Revealing the day of the sun
Astronomer Bill Snyder photographed the Dumbbell nebula, a cloud of dust of a star, showing us the prospect of our solar system's apocalypse.
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Earth welcomes the new year in the solar storm
Astronomers are hoping for a cloudy sky over the next three days, because a powerful solar storm will shoot particles towards Earth and create a spectacular aurora.
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The full moon is most clearly in China
China will have the most visible global eclipse in the last 10 years on Saturday (December 10).
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Survive extraterrestrial life?
Today, astronomers have shown us that the earth is just one of the vast number of planets that can have life. Biologists have revealed to us how life on earth originated.
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The moon is getting smaller
The global process is compressed into the Earth's natural satellite, which has just been published in the Science journal Science.
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Found missing Russian spacecraft
Russia is still powerless in locating the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, but an amateur astronomer happens to discover this black ship.
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Discover more 18 large planets
American astronomers have discovered 18 new planets of the same size as Jupiter. They turn around stars larger than the sun.
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Russian spacecraft began to turn chaotic
Russian spacecraft 'Phobos-Grunt' trapped in orbit has started to turn chaotic and not subject to command from Earth anymore.
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Planet of the Solar System is lost in the universe
Astronomers have agreed that our Solar System originally formed from four giant planets, including Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Neptune. However, a recent scientific study s…