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China produces the largest telescope
China is embarking on its own ground-based optical telescope to help astronomers actively observe the sky for another five to six years.
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Measuring galaxies giant Messier 87
Using ESO's ultra-large VLT telescope, astronomers have succeeded in determining the size of the giant Messier 87 galaxy.
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New technology detects water on Earth-like planets
Since the early 1990s, astronomers have found more than 300 planets orbiting sun-like stars, nearly all of which are giants like Jupiter.
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Capture the most distant object in the universe
International astronomers have just taken the most distant object image ever seen in the universe - 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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There will be the longest eclipse of the century!
When many people still haven't forgotten the total eclipse phenomenon on August 1, 2008, the world will soon have the opportunity to witness this phenomenon again.
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New challenge to the hypothesis of galaxy formation
A team led by an astronomer at Indiana University has recently discovered that some large galaxies have traits that show they have just been formed.
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Discovered two planets that closely resemble the earth
In the process of searching for planet-like planets, European astronomers discovered two giant planets that have many similarities to the homes of humanity.
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Revealing the smell of the Milky Way
While studying a giant cloud of gas and dust in the center of the Milky Way, German astronomers discovered it contained chemicals that make up the flavor of raspberries.
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The 'creative columns' of the universe
Research by astronomers at the Dublin Advanced Research Institute shows that shadows hold the key to how to form giant star-forming structures like 'Creative Columns'.
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Detecting the youngest and smallest mass dwarf in the vicinity of the Sun.
Astronomers have found 3 brown dwarfs with an estimated mass of less than one tenth of Jupiter's mass
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Journey to find Earth's twin brothers
Does the Earth have twins that exist somewhere in our galaxy?
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'Hidden' planets in Hubble data
A new image processing technology could allow astronomers to discover extraterrestrial planets that might be lurking in the data of more than a decade of the Hubble Spac…
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The color of the quasar denotes the dusty universe
According to a team of astronomers, the intergalactic space seems to be filled with fuzzy smoke, tiny dust particles that dim light from distant objects while transformi…
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The meteorite is as big as a 10-storey building flying close to the earth
Astronomers reported that an asteroid the size of a 10-storey building has just passed through the globe.
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3 galaxies play gravity-giving game
Located 100 million light-years away at the constellation Piscis Austrinus (Southern Fish), the three galaxies playing for and receiving can lead to a combination of the…