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The specter of the galaxy
A group of international astronomers have identified giant star streams in the periphery of two nearby spiral galaxies. For the first time, they get a panoramic view of…
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Discovering a newborn supernova near us
A newly formed supernova (a star who died before death), just over a century old, has just been found in our Milky Way.
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The first time the meteor was shot
Astronomers yesterday were delighted to announce that they had for the first time filmed a shooting star exploded. That's why they can now learn how to observe other met…
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What is the true color of the Sun?
People often see the Sun yellow but actually, this star emits the most intense blue light.
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Detecting a pair of stars
A pair of giant yellow stars, spinning so close together that they form a peanut-shaped object in the universe, newly discovered in a galaxy near us. Astronomers say sim…
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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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Debates surrounding the basic formation of the universe
Cosmologists can basically be divided into two groups: those who study fundamental laws, such as the initial conditions or the content of the early universe and those wh…
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One of the youngest and brightest galaxies in the universe
A dense galaxy of light yellow stars lies in a system of
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Detecting cold stars never seen
A weak, lonely and dim star, the lowest temperature ever recorded in history has been discovered, only 40 light-years from Earth.
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The mystery of giant stars: Do they explode?
According to a new project, some giant stars may not explode like supernovae. Instead, scientists estimate that they merely decay into black holes or if they explode, th…
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The truth about the shooting star
In the darkness of the early morning of April 15, 1912, when the Titanic sank into the ice of the Atlantic Ocean, survivors saw a series of light trails in the sky that…
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Why does Soyuz TMA-11 miss out?
The Soyuz spacecraft TMA-11 crew had a press conference in Star City on April 22 to tell about the landing. On April 19, for technical reasons, they landed later, not fo…
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The first organic molecule on an extraterrestrial planet
The Hubble telescope first discovered the presence of organic molecules in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in th…
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The graceful dance of a meteorite ruin
The GMini (Gemini South Multi-Object Spectograph) tool recently captured a strange image of a wide cloud called DEM L 316 in the Magellanic Large Cloud area. The peanut-…
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The coldest place in the universe has a boomerang
This butterfly-shaped nebula is located in the constellation Centaurusm, more than 5,000 light-years from Earth, and the coldest place in the universe. It forms around a…