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Jupiter and Saturn will shine beautifully in the sky from today
The summer is coming, and the big planets like Jupiter and Saturn will give the sky observers the evening the wonderful scenes.
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Interesting things you didn't know about the 25,800 year old Northern star
The North Star (SBC) is not the brightest star, but its brightness is only average. In the ranking of the brightest stars, SBC did not even reach the top 40 but only ran…
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Strange star makes scientists lose sleep
A strange star that constantly changes the brightness makes scientists have to come up with a lot of hypotheses to explain it.
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Found another star that mysteriously dimmed
A team of astronomers discovered something mysterious that blocked light from a young star known as RIK-210, located about 472 light-years away from Earth.
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Sun copies 'eat' many planets in the system
The HIP68468 star has the same size, mass, and brightness as the Sun and has many signs that it has swallowed some planets in the system.
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The painful death of a star ripped apart by a supermassive black hole
The supernova is 20 times brighter than the brightness of the entire Milky Way, which is essentially the corpse of a star so close to the super black hole and torn apart.
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Nice location for Vietnamese people to watch the super moon this century
Astronomers all over the world are about to have the opportunity to admire the largest super moon in 100 years with a brightness of 30% of the normal full moon today.
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Young stars abruptly reduce their light, aliens are suspected of being the culprits
Scientists found that the brightness of the star EPIC 204278916 unexpectedly dropped by 65% for 25 consecutive days, proving it was blocked by something huge.
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NASA planet-like planet hunters will search in the vicinity
While the search for distant exoplanets is heating up every day, NASA's new satellite will choose its own path: finding extrasolar planets near us.
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Blue moon and Mars together illuminate tomorrow night sky
On May 21-22, astronomers all over the world not only have the opportunity to follow the rare blue full moon but also can observe Mars in the closest position to the Ear…
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Mars comes closest to the globe on weekends
The red planet will arrive at the closest globe to the end of May and also achieve the highest brightness when the Earth is between Mars and the Sun.
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Detecting star clusters 30 million times brighter than the Sun.
Scientists have found the largest star cluster in the universe to date, with a brightness of 30 million times the Sun.
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The supernova is 20 times brighter than the Milky Way
Scientists discovered the most powerful supernova ever with 20 times the brightness of the Milky Way and 570 billion times the Sun.
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Dimming stars can be exploited by extraterrestrials
A British physics professor said that the light reduction observed from the Earth by the star KIC 8462852 could be due to a progressive civilization living in a orbiting…
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10 brightest stars in the sky
At the beginning of the winter and spring nights, when looking up at the starry sky, in the sky toward the north there is a bright star throughout the day, that is the s…