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NASA recruited a new
The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.
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Death star bends light
Space telescope Kepler and experts of the American Palomar Observatory found the super-solid white dwarf died in a binary star system.
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NASA discovered the smallest planet in the universe
The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-37b, is only slightly larger than the Moon and takes 13 days to complete an orbit around its star.
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NASA discovered 461 new potential planets
Kepler Space Telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA) has discovered 461 new potential planets.
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The most Earth-like planet shows up
With a radius of 1.5 times the globe, a planet orbiting a star like the sun is the most earth-like celestial object that people ever know.
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100 billion planets reside in the Milky Way
American astronomers predict the Milky Way is home to at least 100 billion stars and 100 billion planets.
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The most exotic new planets 2012
Here are the strangest new planets discovered by astronomers in 2012, according to Live Science magazine.
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Identify 7 planets that can live
According to lead researcher Abel Mendez, scientists have achieved much progress in the way of searching for exoplanets.
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Discovery of the planet
NASA announced it was the first time astronomers discovered the planetary system has two stars. They are about 4,900 light-years away and are located in the constellatio…
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Discovered 41 new planets
Forty-one new planets were discovered published in two separate studies after scientists analyzed data from the Kepler space telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA).
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Detecting the 'copy' of the solar system
According to the Daily Mail, while tracking and analyzing the movement of planets through stars on Kepler-30 - a sun-like star, scientists who participated in the Kepler…
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List of 5 planets can find life
Until now, astronomers have confirmed more than 700 of the thousands of planets outside our solar system.
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The tango of two strange planets
The Kepler space telescope found that the two planets moved so closely that their rotation was like a tango dance. Pair
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Discover more than 1000 new planets outside the solar system
US astronomers have just announced the discovery of more than 1,000 potential objects, new planets outside the solar system - nearly double the number of planets detecte…
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11 new planetary systems discovered from Kepler glasses
The National Aeronautics Agency (NASA) on January 26 said the Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that contain 26 planets.