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Young galaxies have surprisingly strong magnetic fields
The origin of magnetic fields in galaxies remains a mystery to astronomers. The usual hypotheses for reinforcing magnetic fields continuously for billions of years. Howe…
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Observe the disk of light around the black hole
For the first time, an international research team found a way to observe gradual accretion disks around the black hole and verify that their electromagnetic spectrum ma…
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Detecting cosmic ghosts in the night sky
When Yale University astronomer Kevin Schawinski and Oxford University associates won public support for enrolling galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Han…
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New discovery of black hole activity
Using a powerful optical telescope, researchers at Boston University (USA) captured an image of a supermassive black hole while they spewed extremely powerful charged mo…
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The giant black hole in the Milky Way
Using the X-ray satellites of NASA, Japan and Europe, a group of Japanese astronomers discovered the central black hole of our galaxy that once emitted a very powerful e…
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The specter of the galaxy
A group of international astronomers have identified giant star streams in the periphery of two nearby spiral galaxies. For the first time, they get a panoramic view of…
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VISTA: ESO's future telescope
It is expected that this new type of European telescope of the Southern Hemisphere Astronomical Research (ESO) will be used in early 2009.
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100 explosions on the moon
Not long ago, anyone who claimed that they witnessed the glint on the moon would be suspected by professional astronomers. Such reports are stored in L (lunatic) terms
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What is the true color of the Sun?
People often see the Sun yellow but actually, this star emits the most intense blue light.
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The brightest blue comet in the sky rushes towards Earth
The 46P / Wirtanen comet with green light will come close to the point that earth people can see clearly with the naked eye.
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One of the youngest and brightest galaxies in the universe
A dense galaxy of light yellow stars lies in a system of
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Detecting cold stars never seen
A weak, lonely and dim star, the lowest temperature ever recorded in history has been discovered, only 40 light-years from Earth.
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Observe the galaxies formed 10 billion years ago
British astronomers have created the most sensitive infrared cosmic map ever made. Combining data over a period of three years, they created an image containing 100,000…
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The truth about the shooting star
In the darkness of the early morning of April 15, 1912, when the Titanic sank into the ice of the Atlantic Ocean, survivors saw a series of light trails in the sky that…
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Detecting extremely dark dark networks
International astronomers have mapped the structure as the largest dark matter network to date. It spans over 270 million light-years, which is 2,000 times larger than o…