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The star is 20 million times brighter than the sun
International astronomers announced yesterday that they have found the heaviest star ever known by a large array of telescopes in Chile.
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10 million explosions in the planet's largest machine
Scientists at the European Center for Atomic Research (CERN) have created 10 million explosions in a large particle accelerator in a week.
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Hai Vuong star has 'eaten' a planet
Astronomers believe that Neptune has swallowed up a giant planet in the solar system, and robbed the satellite of the ill-fated celestial body.
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First experiment with LHC large particle accelerator
The European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) has successfully conducted experiments to create a direct collision between proton particles producing extremely large e…
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2011: LHC accelerator will stop operating for 1 year
At the end of 2011, the world's largest particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), will be temporarily shut down for a year to repair.
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Russia will prevent meteorites from crashing into the earth
The Russian Space Agency can launch a spacecraft to space to deflect the orbit of a large meteorite capable of colliding with the globe.
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The biggest machine in the world prepares an explosion of
The large particle accelerator re-starts last night after a problem more than a year ago, and will begin the process of simulating the Big Bang explosion.
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The Red Planet once had a wet climate and rain
US scientists have published a new map of Mars that shows there was a large ocean in the north and valleys lying around the planet's equator.
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NASA eliminated the risk of collisions between Apophis and Earth
Thanks to the updated data, NASA scientists recalculated the trajectory of a large celestial body. Accordingly, the risk of collisions between Earth and celestial bodies…
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Spacecraft blocking meteorites rushing towards the earth
British scientists claim that they have successfully built a spacecraft capable of deflecting the path of dangerous meteorites.
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The female fairy eats meat
The Nymph, the only galaxy we can see with the naked eye when standing in the northern hemisphere, swells by swallowing the smaller galaxy.
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Discover a giant galaxy and a great black hole away from the Milky Way
Astronomer Tomotsugu Goto from the University of Hawaii and his colleagues discovered a giant galaxy surrounding a large black hole at a location farther away from Earth…
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Huge bubbles in the universe
At first glance the picture below you will think it is the soap bubbles that some child makes, but it is actually a newly discovered nebula in the universe.
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Earth days are shorter than 5 minutes
A new method of measuring the rotational speed of large gas planets shows that Saturn's days are 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds - 5 minutes shorter than previous ca…
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Evidence of liquid water in comets
Comets contain large amounts of liquid water in the interior for the first 1 million years of the formation process, a new study confirms.