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Meteor shower peaks tonight
Taurid meteor showers appear from late October to mid November. It is listed as a weak meteor shower due to low-frequency meteorites - an average of 7 tracks per hour. T…
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Rescue is wrong because the meteor is a plane
A meteor falling into the sea in the UK at high speed made many people think it was an airplane and reported to the authorities.
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New method of
British scientists propose a completely new method of cooling the Earth by creating 'artificial volcanoes'.
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Find the most Earth-like planet
A new planet discovered about 36 light years away is considered the most likely planet for life ever, if it has enough cloud around, information in National Geographic s…
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96 stars were discovered in the Milky Way
International astronomers have discovered 96 new cluster stars hidden behind dust in the Milky Way after studying data from the VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observator…
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NASA explores the solar system through remnants on Comets
On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft, about 450 miles from Comet Hartley 2. This is a small Comet with a diameter of less than a mile, and needs about six and a…
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The mystery of noctilucent clouds
According to the US Space Agency (NASA), noctilucent clouds look like
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Crystal rain appears
For the first time, the Spitzer telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) discovered a crystal rain on a newly formed star.
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The scene of super hero A380 is hit by lightning
A A380 supercar from Emirates was struck by lightning while flying in London, England.
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Latest three-dimensional map of the universe
Astronomers have just completed a three-dimensional space map of the largest and most detailed type ever. Previous versions could only determine the positions of galaxie…
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NASA captures a star image
Thanks to an orbiting observatory called WISE, NASA scientists have captured shock waves caused by a star that is fleeing in the universe at speeds of up to 54,000 miles…
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Decipher the mysterious fog in the Milky Way
The strange mist in the Milky Way made the scientific world a headache for decades as a swirling dust cloud at a rate of more than ten billion times per second.
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Decode the formation of SO2 gas on Venus's atmosphere
Scientists successfully deciphered the secret of the SO2 gas layer on Venus's upper atmosphere through analyzing the data collected.
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The giant 'peanut' in the universe
The first close-up shots of comets Hartley 2 sent by Deep Impact spacecraft show that this comet is shaped like a giant peanut.
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Detecting a star exploding behind a cloud of dust
While astronomers use a Spitzer space telescope to search for a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy, the team suddenly discovers an unusually hot c…