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Mercury will cross the sun early in the morning
Mercury will pass between the Sun and the Earth late today and until 2016, this event will be repeated again.
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Spot the 'storm' on Saturn
The Cassini probe of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has discovered an unprecedented phenomenon on a planet other than Earth - like a storm - at the southern tip of Satur…
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Project to save planet life
Alliance to Rescue Civilization (ARC) Project comes from concerns about the risk of a global disaster. People will build a conservation base on the moon to sustain life…
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The Hubble telescope demonstrates the theory of planet formation
According to the results of a group of American scientists published in the October 2006 issue of Astronomy Journal, the images obtained by Hubble Space Telescope provid…
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Discover planet half hot, half cold
Thanks to the Spitzer telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA), astronomers first measured the temperature on a planet outside the Solar System and found it to have an ex…
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Pluto is now just a number: 134340
Pluto has been given a different name, commensurate with its new redefined position as an asteroid.
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Discover a mysterious companion star
This is one of the smallest companion stars, even the smallest companion star ever photographed. The Hubble telescope has observed that it orbits a low-mass star, a red…
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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 first image of the eclipse of the celestial star Uranus
While solar eclipses often occur in two larger planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, for celestial stars, this phenomenon has never been observed until now.
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Pluto is no longer a planet
Nearly 2,500 scientists are meeting in Prague, the Czech Republic agreed to vote Pluto from the list of planets in the solar system. The decision of the International As…
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Pledge Pluto!
About 300 American astronomers signed a petition to the International Astronomical Association (IAU), saying they did not agree on the new definition of the planet and d…
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There may be many planets like Earth
According to US researchers, the number of planets that resemble Earth and deep oceans is more likely to be life than we think, with about one-third of the planet's
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The tiny spherical robots will explore Mars
Scientists are preparing to test hundreds of tiny spherical robots that will explore planets like Mars. These robots are housed in a travel chamber in the shape of an eg…
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Discovering two strange celestial bodies
A strange pair of celestial objects vaguely located on the boundary between the planet and why have just been discovered outside the solar system. So far, several dozen…
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Kepler, the largest spherical mirror in orbit
Kepler's astronomical mirror has just been transferred to the Ball Aerospace Group (USA) to conduct a series of tests before installing it on satellites. With a diameter…