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Discover exoplanets with yellow skies and iron rain
NASA astronomers found a planet with an unusual atmosphere, called WASP-79b, about 800 light-years from Earth.
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Beautiful 'super pink moon' images appeared all over the world
Astronomers enjoy watching the biggest, brightest supermoon in 2020 from cities around the world.
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A new discovery about the activity of a supermassive black hole in the early universe
Thanks to the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, astronomers have observed the activity of a black hole in the center of the galaxy 11 billion light-years away.
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The biggest supermoon of the year is about to appear
The biggest moon in 2020 will light up the sky on April 8, when the moon is full and very close to Earth.
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11 mysterious objects in the universe that humans cannot explain
The double quasar, the dwarf planet Haumea or the Tabby star all have mysteries that astronomers have not yet answered.
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Discovered strange 'iron rain' on an exoplanet
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet far away from the Earth where strange 'iron rain' often takes place.
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A dwarf planet in the solar system called China's water god
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently named a planet in the solar system after the Chinese water god Gonggong.
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Discover the largest explosion ever seen in the universe
Astronomers have published images of the explosion that occurred inside the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, about 390 million light-years from Earth.
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First detected oxygen molecule in another galaxy
Astronomers detected a sign that a large number of oxygen molecules exist in the Markarian galaxy 231, 560 million light-years from Earth.
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The rainbow nebula created by an interstellar battle
The ALMA telescope captures a beautiful multicolored gas cloud surrounding two fighting stars in the Centauru constellation more than 6,800 light-years from Earth.
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The 5 most freaky planets in the world have been revealed in the last year
In 2019, astronomers have caught many strange and unimaginable exoplanets, far different from every object in the Solar System.
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A rare moment ago when the unburnt meteorite rushed down to Earth
The amateur astronomer filmed the footage about
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Why are there so many asteroids in the Solar System?
What is in the solar system? An astronomer once cleverly answered:
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Super-Earth discovered very close to the solar system
Astronomers found the exoplanet Proxima c orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, only 4.2 light-years from Earth.
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6 mysterious objects surround the black hole
Astronomers discovered six objects orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * in the center of the Milky Way, most likely a merged star cloud.