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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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Discover the origin of the most common meteorite
When observed with the GEMINI telescope, two Brazilian and American astronomers first discovered that small planets resemble
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Our solar system in the galaxy is rare
When people search farther in the universe, discover more planets other than the sun, many people wonder how unique our solar system is. Astronauts on the trip
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Pluto has a new name: Plutoid
Pluto, downgraded from the 2006 planetary position, had a consolation reward yesterday - it and such tiny planets will be called plutoid collectively.
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The satellites can provide electricity in the future
According to the US online life science newspaper, 40 years ago, someone came up with the idea of installing solar panels in space, whether it was dark or dense cloudy…
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Project solar exploration spacecraft
The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) plans to launch a spacecraft closer to the sun than any previous probe - and what it finds can revolutionize…
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Discover new planets outside the Solar System
Japanese scientists on February 28 said they believed that another planet of two thirds of our Earth is orbiting the outer ring of the Solar System.
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Mars and Venus: surprising similarities
Mars and Venus are still thought to be very different, but there are more similarities than people think. Two nearly identical spacecraft flew around Mars and Venus comp…
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The oldest solar meteorites
A group of scientists led by Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland using visible and infrared data from telescopes in Mauna Kea, Hawaii has identified three met…
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Universal energy: Future energy source
Many strange ideas are proposed at the United Nations Environment Conference, from covering the sky with coal dust to prevent sunlight, to cultivate oceanic algae in the…
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Discover a new planet
German astronomers have discovered a new planet arising in a solar system and are in the process of being formed. This is the first time this type of planetary formation…
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Visit the inner planet of the solar system
On the morning of January 14, Messenger - the first ship to visit Mercury for more than 30 years - has just passed this tiny planet at a distance of only 200 km. This is…
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Voyager 2 Explorer: Discovery of the Curved Solar System
On December 10, scientists announced that the new observation of Voyager 2 discovered that the solar system is asymmetrical, possibly interfering in the interstellar mag…
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Discover a star with 5 planets
American astronomers say they have discovered a new planet orbiting the star orbit 55 Cancri located 41 light-years from Earth. This discovery brought the total number o…
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Test giant telescope with telescope
This balloon is designed to bring the world's largest solar telescope into the atmosphere and has completed a 10-hour test flight.