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Close up of dead star
European astronomers have announced the image of a star about 3,300 light-years from Earth, emitting the last bright light before disappearing forever.
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Install the world's most powerful telescope
Thirty Meter telescope telescope can collect images of objects that are 13 billion light-years away, near the beginning of the universe.
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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.
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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…
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Death star bends light
Space telescope Kepler and experts of the American Palomar Observatory found the super-solid white dwarf died in a binary star system.
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'Hell' does not light throughout ... 2 billion years on the Moon
There are places on the Moon that have been billions of years of sunshine and only illuminated by an unmanned NASA spacecraft.
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Mysterious 'fireball' in the sky of America
The US Space Agency said on March 23 that it had received a lot of information about the appearance of a giant light-like
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Super-large black hole rotates rapidly near the speed of light
The supermassive black hole has a speed close to the speed of light. This is the discovery of scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) thanks to the integration…
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Discover the nearby neighborhood of the solar system
An American astronomer said he had found a pair of new stars lying close to the solar system, and also the nearest neighbor to be discovered since 1917.
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Detecting water on a distant planet
HR 8799c, the name of the planet, about 130 light-years from Earth. It is quite far from its own star so astronomers can observe it easily.
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Detecting solar black holes 6 times the diameter of the Earth
According to the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), a black hole is formed on the surface of the Sun within 48 hours (February 19 and February 20). NASA scientists discovered t…
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The supermassive black hole rotates at the speed of light
For the first time astronomers have measured the rotation speed of a supermassive black hole, and it rotates at nearly the speed of light.
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Witness the birth of the planet
Chilean astronomers said that for the first time they observed directly a planet picturing inside a disk of gas and thick dust at the star system 335 light years away.
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Use light to pull objects
Experts of the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) has successfully invented a miniaturized version of the
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The Fermi telescope 'captured' dark matter
The Fermi glass vision has detected traces of so-called dark matter that account for 85% of the universe's mass.