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Why can't Saturn day be measured?
Strangely, astronomers do not know how many hours a day of Saturn is, because they cannot overcome the obstacle to this giant gas planet.
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A meteor has just grazed the Earth
On the night of March 31, an asteroid named 2006 VV2 flew across the Earth from a distance of about a hundred
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'Global killer' Where will Apophis target?
Experts are determining the fall of the Apophis -99942 meteorite when it travels at a speed of 45,000 km / hr and is approaching Earth. A large area stretching from Cent…
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The universe contains more calcium than we thought
The universe contains 1.5 times more canxin than previous calculations. This conclusion was made by astronomers at the Dutch SRON space research institute after they use…
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Astronomy research by ... Internet
Gone are the days when astronomical research had to have big, expensive telescopes and must be professional researchers. Today's digital age is
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A large meteorite is about to cause earth
If astronomers' calculations are correct, Friday April 13, 2029 may be a very unlucky day for the Earth, because a giant meteorite will crash into a green planet. There…
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Detected more than 362,000 planets
According to Klet Observatory (in the south of the Czech Republic), as of January 1, 2007, astronomers in the world discovered 362,447 planets, including 145,705 numbere…
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Discover the first quasar
At the American Astronomical Society conference in Seattle, astronomers said they had just discovered the first quasar. Initially, the researchers thought that the trio…
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Set up the first three-dimensional universe map
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology, USA have successfully established the first three-dimensional cosmic space map of dark matter in the universe.
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'Snake' on the Milky Way
Something scary seems to be crawling on our galaxies in a new Halloween photograph taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. The object that looks like this snake is actu…
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Discover planet half hot, half cold
Thanks to the Spitzer telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA), astronomers first measured the temperature on a planet outside the Solar System and found it to have an ex…
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For the first time found dark matter
American astronomers say they have found the first direct evidence of the mysterious material called dark matter. Dark matter - stuff no
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On September 3, the SMART-1 satellite will fall to the Moon
Whether professional or amateur, all astronomers will be invited by the European Space Agency (ESA) to observe the fall of the SMART-1 probe into the lunar surface.
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Direct observation of a new bright star explosion
The group of British and American scientists first observed directly a very bright new supernova (supernova), occurring in the constellation Belier in the galaxy about 4…
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Pledge Pluto!
About 300 American astronomers signed a petition to the International Astronomical Association (IAU), saying they did not agree on the new definition of the planet and d…