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Detecting a ring of dark matter
Astronomers say they have documented the best evidence so far about the existence of dark matter, located 5 billion light-years away in the collision of two galactic gro…
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The earth used to be purple
The ancient life on earth once covered a purple, not green as it is now. Ancient bacteria may have used a molecule other than chlorophyll to exploit sunlight, and it is…
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On other planets, plants may be red or yellow
The law that makes plants on earth appear green can also cause plants on other planets to be yellow, red or green - but rarely blue. Detect n &
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The light of the supernova explosion SN 1987A continued to shine
Twenty years after the first observation of supernova explosion SN 1987A, this is a near supernova explosion
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Limit on the size of dark matter blocks
If dark matter is really only in a large mass, then they cannot be more than a tenth of the Earth's mass. This has been made by physicists from Germany and the United Ki…
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The first three black holes appear in the universe
The Southern European Hemisphere Research Organization (ESO) says it has discovered three surprisingly large black holes near each other and forms a large mass of celest…
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NASA unfolds the secret of aurora phenomenon
On January 17, US Space Agency NASA announced an ambitious program: to launch five satellites on February 15 to uncover the current secret.
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Mysterious beauty of Saturn
Scientists want to study the Saturn system in detail because they believe it will shed light on the basic questions of chemistry, physics, the process of formation and
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New instrumentation helps scientists forecast the universe's weather more accurately
New measuring equipment and observation techniques developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign are helping scientists better understand and…
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'Snake' on the Milky Way
Something scary seems to be crawling on our galaxies in a new Halloween photograph taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. The object that looks like this snake is actu…
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NASA mapped black holes in the universe
Scientists from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) have used SWIFT satellites to capture space in many angles and map black holes in distances of less than 400 million light…
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Discover planet 'wick button'
A newly found planet has a density of only 1/4 of water and will float if released into a bathtub large enough to hold it.
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The sunshade allows observations of planets outside the solar system
Like a hand in front of the eyes to reduce the glare of the Sun, a giant sunshade with a flower-like shape extends its wings in space to allow direct observation of the…
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Discover the largest cosmic structure ever
Japanese astronomers have discovered a giant cosmic structure shaped of water droplets up to 200 million light-years across, including the largest galaxies and giants fr…
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Crystal
In countless bright stars, except for planets, most are self-luminous, and are relatively stable. Those are the essentials. They are lights that are not turned off in th…