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'Devilish stars' appeared during the week
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'Devilish stars' appeared during the week

Belonging to the constellation Majestic (Perseus), Algol has been called the 'demon star' since ancient times. Algol's name is derived from the word al-ghul, meaning 'fe…

December 17, 2018
Detects two gas planets orbiting the star
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Detects two gas planets orbiting the star

The US space agency (NASA) on September 14 said scientists have for the first time found evidence that planets can form and exist around stars similar to the face. Heave…

December 17, 2018
Discovery of the planet
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Discovery of the planet

NASA announced it was the first time astronomers discovered the planetary system has two stars. They are about 4,900 light-years away and are located in the constellatio…

December 17, 2018
Giant pupils in the universe
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Giant pupils in the universe

The star, known as U Camelopardis and in the constellation Camelopardalis (Giraffe), is in the final stage of life, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Helium gas in i…

December 17, 2018
Catch the light from super-earth
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Catch the light from super-earth

Light from a planet twice the size of the Earth has reached Spitzer's lens in an event known as astronomical achievement by astronomers. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope c…

December 17, 2018
Identify the two oldest dwarfs in the universe
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Identify the two oldest dwarfs in the universe

Mukremin Kilic and his colleagues identified two of the oldest and closest known white dwarfs ever known from the University of Oklahoma assistant professor of physics a…

December 17, 2018
Huge black hole swallowed the stars
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Huge black hole swallowed the stars

Many theories suggest that a black hole has a mass of millions to billions of solar masses due to the huge amount of gas, or in combination with other black holes. Howev…

December 17, 2018
Discover the planet's most planetary star
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Discover the planet's most planetary star

According to research by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), HD 10180 - a Sun-like star of the Hydrus constellation - may include nine planets orbiting i…

December 17, 2018
Discover planet full of water
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Discover planet full of water

BBC said, the planet, named GJ 1214b, was discovered in December 2009 by underground telescopes but astronomers only knew it was bigger than Earth and smaller than Jupit…

December 17, 2018
Constellations 13 billion years old
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Constellations 13 billion years old

Our Milky Way series is surrounded by nearly 200 dense constellations, each with about one million stars on average. At the age of 13 billion years, these spherical cons…

December 17, 2018
Meteor shower appears tomorrow
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Meteor shower appears tomorrow

The biggest and most beautiful meteor shower of the year will appear tomorrow. If the weather conditions are favorable, astronomers in Vietnam can admire this amazing ph…

December 17, 2018