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New exoplanet discovered around red dwarfs
Scientists found exoplanets the size of Neptune orbiting the star AU Mic, 32 light-years from Earth.
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Quasars containing black holes are 1.5 billion times more massive than the Sun.
Astronomers found the largest quasar ever in the early universe, more than 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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Neutron stars have a magnetic field 1,000 times stronger than normal
NASA astronomers discovered a very young and powerful neutron star, about 16,000 light-years from Earth.
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Discovered the most violent asteroid in Solar System history
A giant asteroid about 1/7 the size of the Moon surprised astronomers with its special history.
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Discovered that the brown dwarf closest to Earth contains the dust disk
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a brown dwarf star 332 light-years from Earth that could support planet formation.
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Cosmic signals repeat on a 157-day cycle
Astronomers detected that the FRB 121102 signal was a second radio wave that traveled from deep space to Earth on a repetitive cycle.
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How do scientists measure the mass of a star?
Almost everything in the universe has mass, from atoms and subatomic particles, to huge groups of galaxies.
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Comets 'disguised' meteorite scientists confused
Scientists found that what they thought they were the mysterious 'debris' of the Solar System turned out to be just a filthy block of ice.
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Discover a new kind of explosion in the universe
Astronomers on Thursday said they have discovered a new type of stellar explosion, different from the gamma-ray and supernova explosion.
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The mysterious bubble that appears in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is finally 'decoded'.
Since its first discovery to date, the Fermi Bubble has caused astronomers around the world to have a 'headache' for not being able to find the origin of this giant gamm…
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The weirdest series of images taken on Mars
In the 19th century, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed that he observed the canal on Mars. Since then, people have continuously discovered strange images…
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Do the colors of the exoplanets reveal if they could be habitable?
A team of astronomers from Cornell University in the US has proposed a new way to find out if an exoplanet is habitable.
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Discover the oldest disk galaxy
Astronomers observe a disk galaxy 12.5 billion light-years from Earth in the early universe.
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For the first time discovered the 'heartbeat' of the mysterious star
For the past few decades, astronomers have been trying to listen to the 'heartbeat' of a class of stars called the Delta Scuti variable star.
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The nearest brown dwarf has a cloud band like Jupiter
Astronomers discovered the brown dwarf Luhman 16A surrounded by stable clouds in the atmosphere.