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Discovered a giant black hole never seen in the universe
NASA said that American astronomers have discovered a giant black hole of at least 24 times the mass of the Sun in the constellation Cassiopeia. This discovery has broke…
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4 convolution 1 - giant collision in the universe
Scientists have observed four giant galaxies colliding at the same time, in the event considered one of the largest cosmic explosions ever seen.
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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 a ring of dark matter
Astronomers say they have documented the best evidence so far about the existence of dark matter, located 5 billion light-years away in the collision of two galactic gro…
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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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The universe contains more calcium than we thought
The universe contains 1.5 times more canxin than previous calculations. This conclusion was made by astronomers at the Dutch SRON space research institute after they use…
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The first three black holes appear in the universe
The Southern European Hemisphere Research Organization (ESO) says it has discovered three surprisingly large black holes near each other and forms a large mass of celest…
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Test the BLAST balloon balloon in the South Pole sky
Canada and three partner countries, the United States, Britain and Mexico, have conducted an experiment in the South Pole sky. The 2,000kg heavy telescope called BLAST h…
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Best photos of 2006 about space
MSNBC, an online news agency, voted every year for the best photos to show the public the panoramic view of the surrounding world. Unlike every year, this year MSNBC kh…
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Discover the first quasar
At the American Astronomical Society conference in Seattle, astronomers said they had just discovered the first quasar. Initially, the researchers thought that the trio…
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Set up the first three-dimensional universe map
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology, USA have successfully established the first three-dimensional cosmic space map of dark matter in the universe.
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'Snake' on the Milky Way
Something scary seems to be crawling on our galaxies in a new Halloween photograph taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. The object that looks like this snake is actu…
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New discovery about galaxy formation
The Spitzer telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has captured rare images of two entangled galaxies to form a new galaxy.
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Great telescope project
Australia and South Africa - which nation will own one of the great science projects of the 21st century. These are the remaining two candidates in the race to acquire t…
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Uncover dark matter
The event that was most interested in space research by the researchers in August was 70 years after the concept