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Destructive rocks
A recent study shows that the United States and China are the two countries most vulnerable to meteorites. In the absence of financial support, astronomers are strugglin…
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Detecting huge hollow black holes in the universe
Astronomers were astounded by the huge, empty black hole they had just discovered. What is remarkable in this huge black hole is that there are no visible forms like gal…
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Eistein is right, neutron stars make space-time twists
Albert Einstein and fiction writers have predicted the space-time twisting phenomenon of neutron stars, the most dense material that can be observed in the universe. And…
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Discover the largest planet outside the Solar System
A group of international astronomers who have discovered the largest known planet ever moves in the orbit of another star. The planet passes in front of the parent star…
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Discover the molecules needed for life around a super giant star
University of Arizona astronomers have discovered about 20 molecules with the necessary components for life in the environment around the super-giant star VY Canis Major…
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The software helps identify stars on photos
In the future, amateur photographers and astronomers can identify stars in the sky thanks to a software developed by the University of Toronto (Canada) in partnership wi…
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Detecting foreign vapor of the solar system
Astronomers say they have just discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside the Solar System. Steam was discovered on planet HD 189733b, thanks to…
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Detecting a planet hot ice
Astronomers from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) have discovered a planet that can be composed of hot ice around a small star 30 light-years from Earth.
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Find fat planet
Watch out at the scale! HAT-P-2b, a round fat planet with such gravitational pull that a person weighing nearly 70 kg on earth when there will weigh more than 1 ton. Thi…
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The explosion was so intense that it surprised the astronomers
It was the brightest and most energetic starburst known, and may be the first evidence of a new kind of supernova.
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An old star near the universe
By using a special process, astronomers from the European Astronomical Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) have identified a star in our Milky Way tha…
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Detecting a ring of dark matter
Astronomers say they have documented the best evidence so far about the existence of dark matter, located 5 billion light-years away in the collision of two galactic gro…
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Detecting water on extrasolar planets
Astronomers on April 10 announced they first found evidence of the existence of water on an outer planet of the Solar System - planet HD 209458b.
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Found brilliant red squares in the universe
Astronomers have been able to capture the most brilliant and symmetrical cosmic object, located far from the galaxy c