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How to measure the distance through the center of the Milky Way?
Scientists had a more precise idea to measure the distance to celestial bodies on the other side of the Milky Way than the Earth.
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Find out how to weigh black holes: use galaxy spiral arms
Dr. Benjamin Davis and Professor Alister Graham, led this new study to restore the link between mass black holes and spiral branch geometry.
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The Milky Way has a mass of 700 billion times the Sun.
The most accurate measurement conducted by Canadian scientists shows the total mass of stars, black holes, dust, dark matter and unspecified flying objects of the Milky…
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NASA's Mars mission was delayed for another 2 years
There is no official information on whether or not NASA will completely cancel the mission, or just delay the mission until 2018.
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First measurement of comet temperature
The European Space Agency's Rosetta cruise ship (ESA) has just conducted a temperature measurement for comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first time a man-made proce…
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Japan launches satellite tracking global rainfall
Japan on February 28 successfully launched high-tech satellite-carrying missiles to monitor global rainfall and support weather forecasts.
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Anatomy of asteroids
Telescope The new Southern European Observatory (ESA) technology at the La Silla Observatory conducted a detailed measurement of asteroids called Itokawa.
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Prepare to launch a global rainfall measuring satellite GPM
GPM will use the same exploration method as its predecessor, built on previous technology.
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The Earth is 7,800 light years away from the black hole V404 Cygni
Researcher Peter Jonker of the SRON Space Research Institute in the Netherlands said the black hole is named V404 Cygni about 7,800 light-years from our Earth.
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Radiation is deadly in the Martian mission
The measurement results made by Mars self-propelled Curiosity show that astronauts face more dense radiation than previously thought, complicating the potential mission…
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New technique to monitor solar storms
Chinese scientists say they have found a new way to detect the direction of the eruption of coronal material on the sun's surface, the culprit behind the solar storms.
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Revealing the cause of Mars without the atmosphere
The Curiosity probe of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has found evidence that up to 90% of Mars's original atmosphere has disappeared into space throughout the history o…
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1 Russian satellite hits Chinese space waste
According to Radio Voice of Russia, Russia's Blitz satellite, which works in conjunction with the international laser remote sensing system, collided with the debris of…
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Mars is hotter than 0 ° C
After the successful landing on August 6, the Curiosity robot of the US Space Agency (NASA) began its journey to explore Mars and regularly transfer data to Earth.
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The storm with lightning on Saturn releases tremendous heat
The biggest and most intense storm in the last 20 years has been discovered on Saturn. The initial measurement data for the storm was published on the cover of Nature, J…