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Clash between two galaxies
Space science

Clash between two galaxies

US scientists say the X-ray astronomical observatory of the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Earth's orbit Chandra has provided impressive details about…

December 17, 2018
Exotic galaxies turn gas into ... stars
Space science

Exotic galaxies turn gas into ... stars

Astronomers have found a galaxy that turns gas into stars with a success rate of approximately 100%. Its name is SDSSJ1506 + 54.

December 17, 2018
Suddenly found water in the universe
Space science

Suddenly found water in the universe

US and Canadian scientists have found steam and carbon oxides in the atmosphere of a planet 129 light-years from Earth.

December 17, 2018
Milky Way between the black hole fin
Space science

Milky Way between the black hole fin

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the US have run computer programs on galaxy formation, thus discovering that our Milky Way is probabl…

December 17, 2018
Take a photo of two sun planets
Space science

Take a photo of two sun planets

Somewhere in a distant galaxy, scientists believe they captured the first image of a planet orbiting the two suns.

December 17, 2018
Black hole woke up after 30 years,
Space science

Black hole woke up after 30 years,

For the first time, astrophysicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland discovered a black hole swallowing a planet with an estimated mass of 15 times that of Jup…

December 17, 2018
Decoding super-fast stars in 'Ngan river'
Space science

Decoding super-fast stars in 'Ngan river'

Last month astronomers discovered six super-fast stars flying very fast near the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, where the dust density was so great that the…

December 17, 2018
New way of 'weighing' black holes
Space science

New way of 'weighing' black holes

Black holes are known to exist at the center of most galaxies, but there are still many unanswered mysteries that are their influence on galaxies' evolution.

December 17, 2018