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The mysterious aurora was discovered on Saturn
Saturn has special aurorae that light up polarity unlike any known planetary aurora in the solar system.
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Detecting mysterious dark flows in the universe
As if the mystery of dark matter and dark energy has not been controversial enough, a new question has been discovered about the universe.
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The supernova of the wild cousin of SN 1987A
Astronomers have recently discovered that a relative of a strange exploding star was once thought to be unique in the universe. For more than two decades they have thoro…
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The strange magnetic field of the star
Astronomers have discovered the most bizarre cosmic object flashes 40 times before disappearing. It is possible that this is a missing link in the neutron star family, t…
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Stars formed from the wind
The terrestrial and space telescope combined to capture a picture provides a new perspective on the region's history with a great deal of NGC 346.
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The role of the sun during solar system formation
The strange oxygen atom mixture in an exploded meteorite in the sky of Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 million years ago has caused scientists to suffer since that…
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Detecting the minimum mass of the galaxy
By analyzing light from small galaxies, orbiting the Milkey Way galaxy, the researchers found the minimum mass of galaxies in the universe: 10 million times the mass of…
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Comets shed light on the early days of the solar system
A new picture of comet composition, with the help of 21st century technology, was present at Diamon, Britain's national Crotron light source, in Oxfordshire.
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Find the missing link on the black hole
For the first time, researchers have discovered that a strong X-ray pulse is emitted from a giant black hole in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth.
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Wild 2 dust comets reveal the amazing things about the solar system
The chemical evidence from the light of a comet is stimulating observations about the history and development of the solar system and shows that it is more confusing tha…
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Monsters from the field in space
The Hubble Space Telescope has solved a puzzling problem about the giant fibers formed by the strong uterus surrounding the galaxy NGC 1275
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Ghost physics: Signal faster than light
A new study says that the events that Einstein calls
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Debates about Pluto
Taking music, camera lights and audience applause as a backdrop, two debators and a mediator walked into the auditorium.
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Shining spiral galaxies in the universe
ESO's Wide Field Imager has just captured a confusing picture of spiral galaxy Messier 83 - the galaxy looks a lot like our Milky Way but smaller.
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Close up of the black hole of the Milky Way
If an object looks like a black hole, it acts like a black hole, it might be a black hole.