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Six outstanding space missions are underway
In addition to the European Space Agency's Philae probe, the recent landing on comet 67P has six other outstanding missions underway.
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Discovering the planet has never been long before
Astronomers have discovered outer planets The solar system has the longest year, up to 704 days.
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Astronomers confused because of the giant version of the earth
The Kepler space telescope detected a planet with a hard surface like the globe, but its size was 17 times larger than our planet.
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Predict the time of planetary death
For the first time, experts discovered and predicted that the two planets would soon be swallowed by the central star for more than 100 million years.
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The Kepler space telescope returned to operation
Beginning later this month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center will deploy Kepler's next mission.
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An earth copy outside the solar system appears
For the first time, scientists discovered planets that exist in liquid form similar in size to the earth.
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Our earth is a unique planet in the universe?
Astronomers call them such super-Earths and planets so much outside our solar system.
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Planetary candidate has the shortest orbit
Scientists have discovered 6 planetary candidates with orbiting speed, only 4 hours to complete the rotation around their star.
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Detecting inclined planetary system
The Kepler telescope of the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has transmitted an unusual planetary system, with
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NASA planetarium expert broken
On August 15, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced it was unable to repair the space ship Kepler and it would not be able to continue hunting for planets outside t…
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Kepler's fireball
With the newly discovered planet, its year is just one day of working on Earth, about 8:30.
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Aliens communicate by laser?
American scientists hypothesize that aliens do not communicate with radio waves but use lasers to transmit data. Scientists hope to find evidence for this hypothesis soo…
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Detecting exoplanets based on relativity
Because of the often fainter appearance than mother stars, exoplanet planets are often found by indirect methods.
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Discover the most Earth-like planet pair
A University of Washington expert (USA) has announced the discovery of a pair of planets with the most similarities with Earth thanks to the work of the Kepler telescope.