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Vulcan leads the poll of the name of the Pluto moon
The name Vulcan comes back first in the campaign to find the new name for the two smallest moons of Pluto (Pluto), thanks to the nomination of
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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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Europe successfully launched Vega boosters
The 30-meter Vega missile can carry goods weighing about 2.5 tons or less, worth about 776 million euros, of which Italy contributes about 60% of the total value of miss…
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NASA has discovered 3 planets smaller than Earth
Thanks to data from NASA's Kepler telescope, astronomers have discovered three planets smaller than Earth, orbiting a star much smaller than our Sun.
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The first time the spacecraft flew around Mercury
Last night an American spacecraft flew into Mercury orbit, the smallest and most exotic planet in the solar system.
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Admire the youngest and smallest black hole in the universe
With the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory astronomers, NASA scientists have found evidence of the existence of a black hole ...
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This moon, what is the strange moon?
The moon that appears on the Mid-Autumn Festival this year will be the smallest in the last 18 years.
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Jupiter-like planets orbiting one of the smallest stars
A tool for hunting planets, used long ago, gave the first result - a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest known stars.
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Detecting the youngest and smallest mass dwarf in the vicinity of the Sun.
Astronomers have found 3 brown dwarfs with an estimated mass of less than one tenth of Jupiter's mass
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Mercury is getting smaller
The size of Glass, the smallest planet in the solar system, is getting smaller and smaller ...
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The smallest black hole has ever been recorded
Using a new method, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest black hole ever known. With a mass of about 3.8 times heavier than the Sun and only about 15 miles i…
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Mercury will cross the sun early in the morning
Mercury will pass between the Sun and the Earth late today and until 2016, this event will be repeated again.
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Discover a mysterious companion star
This is one of the smallest companion stars, even the smallest companion star ever photographed. The Hubble telescope has observed that it orbits a low-mass star, a red…
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There is a small solar system!
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is about to be the birth of the smallest solar system: from astronomical observations from the ground as well as from space…