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China discovered more than 10,000 big stars containing many lithium elements
Chinese astronomers have discovered more than 10,000 giant stars containing many lithium elements.
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Wavy air structure in the Milky Way
Astronomers today announced the discovery of a wave pattern of wavy gas that reaches 9,000 light-years across our Milky Way.
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'Solar eclipse' for the first time discovered in pairs of ancient Arctic stars aligned with the Egyptian pyramids
Astronomers have long understood that a star called Thuban, possibly a North Star with the ancient Egyptians, is actually a pair of stars. NASA astronomers recently disc…
Archeology
The neutron star collision is 520 million light-years from Earth
Astronomers for the second time discovered gravitational waves generated from the intense merger of two neutron stars.
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One of the brightest stars in the sky is about to explode?
When it happens, the explosion of a star larger than 1,000 Suns can be seen from the Earth even in the morning.
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Christmas tree nebula in the constellation Unicorn
For Christmas, astronomer Jean Dean shares a stunning photograph of the NGC 2264 nebula 2,600 light-years from Earth.
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'Extraterrestrial' exoplanet discovered as dense as cotton candy
Astronomers found nearly 15 exoplanets in the Kepler 51 star system with a density of less than 0.1 grams of matter per cubic centimeter.
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Hypervelocity is kicked out of the Milky Way at the fastest speed in the universe
Astronomers detected a hypervelocity star called S5-HVS1 away
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The galaxy is 600 million light-years from Earth
The origin of Hoag, the galaxy with a special shape, has been a mystery of science for nearly 70 years.
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Warning tragedy meteor strike, wipe out life on Earth
A leading astronomer believes that the scenario of an asteroid plummeting to Earth, wiping out the life of mankind is only a matter of time.
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The interstellar comet is about to fly closest to Earth
Astronomers will have the opportunity to observe 2I / Borisov, comets coming from other star systems, at the most detailed level ever.
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The 'lonely star' was kicked out of the Milky Way, forever in nothingness
Astronomers find a star that is 'gliding' across our Milky Way at 6 million km / h, and so this star will leave the Milky Way in 100 million years.
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Obtain the mysterious 'voice' of the Earth
Astronomers first recorded the mysterious 'song' of the Earth's magnetic field during a solar storm attack.
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The suspect is the smallest black hole ever discovered
A team of astronomers at Ohio University found that the object is most likely a black hole about 3.3 times the mass of the Sun.
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11 mysteries about dark matter have not been answered yet
In 1930, a Swiss astronomer named Fritz Zwicky discovered that clusters of distant galaxies revolved around each other faster than the large galaxies they observed close…