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The strange object disturbs the classification of extraterrestrial planets
The European COROT spacecraft has detected an object the size of a planet that orbits its star with close proximity.
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Limit the maximum size of the black hole
There seems to be a maximum limit on the size that the largest black holes in the universe can achieve.
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Why do astronauts swim poorly in the air?
The weightless environment in the universe causes astronauts to estimate the wrong distance and size.
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Forming galaxies like?
Astronomers have recently discovered the integration process of many large galaxies about 4 billion years ago.
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Brown stars are the third cosmic object after stars and planets
The system for classifying cosmic objects needs to be adjusted. Researchers at the Argelander Astronomical Institute claim that brown stars need to be separated into a n…
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Mercury is getting smaller
The size of Glass, the smallest planet in the solar system, is getting smaller and smaller ...
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Moon fooled our eyes
The full moon this week will hang lower in the sky than any other full moon this year, and is a good opportunity to deceive us. When lying low near the horizon, the moon…
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Discovering planets hotter than 2,000 degrees Celsius
Scientists on May 9 said they have discovered an outer planet. The solar system is about the same size as Saturn, with temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, t…
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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 2004 meteorite XP14 skimmed near Earth
Yesterday 11am (US time), the 2004 XP14 meteorite has approached very close to the globe. This meteorite is 432.308km from Earth, only slightly above the average distanc…
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Inflatable spaceship - the foundation of the hotel in space
On July 12, the Genesis I inflatable spacecraft (pictured) - considered the foundation of the future space hotel model - was successfully launched from southern Russia.
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Evidence of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan moon detected
Scientists say the first common evidence has been found about giant hydrocarbon lakes on Titan's surface, which is believed to have a fairly Earth-like atmosphere.
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Detection of the Solar System may contain Earth-like planets
Colorado University researchers while simulating supercomputers 4 The solar system is close to each other with large Jupiter-sized planets - the largest planet in our So…
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Sizing of the 10th 'planet'
Experts from the University of Bonn (Germany) have confirmed UB313 - celestial body can be the 10th planet in the solar system - bigger than Pluto. However, this finding…
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Discover 2 new moons belonging to Pluto
Using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the solar system's edge, astronomers discovered two more small moons flying around the orbit of Pluto, bringing the planet's…