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Campaign to search for extraterrestrial life (Part 2)
Things have changed since Secretary Kirk and Spock conducted a search for life and new civilizations.
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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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An explosion of carbon-rich stars
A new study has been discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick that a mysterious stellar explosion recorded in 2006 could mark the abnormal demise of a…
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Blurred meteor detection
Core-collapse supernovae (also called gravitational supernovae) is one of the most violent phenomena in the universe.
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The first time a revived star was discovered
International scientists have found a star from weakening very quickly before dying. But suddenly it turns into a star from another with a tremendous rotation speed and…
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Crystal formation in comets
Scientists have long wondered how small silicate crystals, which need very high temperatures to form, are present in cold comets that are born on the outer edge of the s…
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Measuring galaxies giant Messier 87
Using ESO's ultra-large VLT telescope, astronomers have succeeded in determining the size of the giant Messier 87 galaxy.
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Observatory 'world' observes stars are cooling down
The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a network of worldwide observatories by the University of Delaware, is synchronizing telescope tubes to provide information
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Capture the most distant object in the universe
International astronomers have just taken the most distant object image ever seen in the universe - 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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The 'hungry demons' roam the galaxy
Several hundred giant black holes can suck everything left from the early stages of the universe flying in our galaxy, according to a new study.
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Reading light helps locate Earth-like planets
Thanks to the ability to detect the occurrence of extraterrestrial planets orbiting distant stars, scientists are now able to study hundreds of solar systems.
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New challenge to the hypothesis of galaxy formation
A team led by an astronomer at Indiana University has recently discovered that some large galaxies have traits that show they have just been formed.
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The mystery of the star's light source
Scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have helped reveal the
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'God's hand' in the universe
The Chandra telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) captures an image like a giant hand reaching towards the stars.
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Find material 10 billion times harder than steel
The crust of the hidden crystals has 10 billion times the hardness of ordinary steel. This helps them create gravitational waves that we can detect from the earth.