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Stars are abandoned
Space science

Stars are abandoned

It is not easy to get a star out of its galaxy, but experts at Vanderbilt University (USA) have identified a group of more than 675 stars falling into this situation. Wa…

December 17, 2018
'Star' also plays basketball
Space science

'Star' also plays basketball

The astrophysics team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center (USA) has come up with an interesting hypothesis, whereby billions of stars in the Milky Way have a habit of catc…

December 17, 2018
New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars
Space science

New images from the galaxy include 1 billion stars

New photographs, introduced March 28, include infrared images of the galaxy taken from surveying the sky from two different telescopes, the first being the infrared tele…

December 17, 2018
Huge black hole swallowed the stars
Space science

Huge black hole swallowed the stars

Many theories suggest that a black hole has a mass of millions to billions of solar masses due to the huge amount of gas, or in combination with other black holes. Howev…

December 17, 2018
Discover new supernova
Space science

Discover new supernova

Astronomers and observers discovered the supernova's bright spot on March 16 on the Galaxy band. This supernova is spiral-shaped, the constellations are closely linked.…

December 17, 2018
New map of star systems
Space science

New map of star systems

NASA has announced a new map with more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many of which have never been known before.

December 17, 2018
Detect a rectangular galaxy
Space science

Detect a rectangular galaxy

A rare rectangular galaxy with a jewel-like shape has been discovered by astronomers.

December 17, 2018
Planet super speed
Space science

Planet super speed

Seven years ago, astronomers discovered the first fleeing star from the Milky Way at a rate of about 2.4 million km / h. New research results conducted by Harvard-Smiths…

December 17, 2018
Nomadic planets flood the Milky Way
Space science

Nomadic planets flood the Milky Way

Our galaxy may contain more than 100,000 planets that move freely, not belonging to any solar system. That is the conclusion drawn from the study of planets

December 17, 2018
Constellations 13 billion years old
Space science

Constellations 13 billion years old

Our Milky Way series is surrounded by nearly 200 dense constellations, each with about one million stars on average. At the age of 13 billion years, these spherical cons…

December 17, 2018
Black holes escape the destruction of the galaxy
Space science

Black holes escape the destruction of the galaxy

Like the case of fossil vision that guessed an extinct creature, a black hole could provide information about its galaxy that had been previously destroyed. The Hubble S…

December 17, 2018
10 mysteries in the universe
Space science

10 mysteries in the universe

Super-speed stars, dark energy, dark matter, black holes, neutinos ... are the secrets of space science that will discover in 2012.

December 17, 2018