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Bill Gates contributed money to build the observatory
According to AFP news agency, the founder of Microsoft Company, billionaire Bill Gates will contribute $ 10 million to help build the observatory named LSST (Large Synop…
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Telescope is as big as a building ... 10 floors
Astronomers were stunned by the most valuable gift to them. The charity, sponsored by Gordan Moore, co-founder of Intel, and his wife, will donate $ 200 million to build…
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The software helps identify stars on photos
In the future, amateur photographers and astronomers can identify stars in the sky thanks to a software developed by the University of Toronto (Canada) in partnership wi…
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East Asia's largest telescope
The optical telescope with a diameter of 2.4 m has been installed successfully at the Lijiang Astronomical Observatory, Yunnan Province, China. This is also one of the l…
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The explosion was so intense that it surprised the astronomers
It was the brightest and most energetic starburst known, and may be the first evidence of a new kind of supernova.
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Detecting water on extrasolar planets
Astronomers on April 10 announced they first found evidence of the existence of water on an outer planet of the Solar System - planet HD 209458b.
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The Spectrum-RG telescope helps to see 3 million galaxies
The Spectrum-RG astrophysical observatory project (scheduled to be launched in 2011) will have a target for space exploration with X-rays and gamma rays. Observing the e…
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China names many asteroids
Many recently discovered asteroids bring names from China such as Nanjing, Hong Kong, Shenzhou, Yang Loi Wei ... 60 localities in China have names for asteroids.
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A new breakthrough in understanding the formation of stars
The Swedish Space Company has said scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how stars form when detecting molecular oxygen in interstellar space.
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Detected more than 362,000 planets
According to Klet Observatory (in the south of the Czech Republic), as of January 1, 2007, astronomers in the world discovered 362,447 planets, including 145,705 numbere…
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NASA: Observatory observes the relationship between the Sun and the Earth
Two virtually identical solar observatories will be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida state on October 25, in a mission to observe the Sun-Earth relations called S…
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The Hubble observatory camera stops working
The most basic instrument on the old Hubble space observatory has muted over the weekend, stopping providing wonderful images of distant galaxies and newborn stars. The…
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Increasingly cold sun?
Although the earth is getting warmer, the heat from the sun shining on Earth has decreased slightly in the last 5 years. It can be clearly seen through observing the dim…
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Super small planet discovered outside the solar system
One of the smallest planets of another solar system was discovered by astronomers at the Southern European Observatory in North Chile. A group of French and Swiss astron…
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The discovery confirmed the black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Chinese researchers at Shanghai Observatory claim they have had solid evidence confirming their existence