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Learn about the North Star
The North is the brightest star in the sub-constellation Elves. With the Northern Hemisphere observer, it occupies a special place. Only a half degree difference from th…
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Hubble telescope observes a hot atmosphere
Thanks to one of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments, the researchers have distinguished the different layers of the atmosphere from an atmosphere.
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The universe contains more calcium than we thought
The universe contains 1.5 times more canxin than previous calculations. This conclusion was made by astronomers at the Dutch SRON space research institute after they use…
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Test the BLAST balloon balloon in the South Pole sky
Canada and three partner countries, the United States, Britain and Mexico, have conducted an experiment in the South Pole sky. The 2,000kg heavy telescope called BLAST h…
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Stars flutter down the house
A 337-gram piece of meteorite fell on a house in New Jersey residential area, 80km south of New York in the past week. The meteorite has a long and hard shape like metal…
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The heaviest star in the Milky Way Stripped
The star Pismis 24-1 was stripped of the Milky Way's heaviest title after the new Hubble telescope's measurement method shows that it is essentially a double star.
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White dwarf rips a planet
A small planet was torn into pieces and disappeared after moving too close to a white dwarf. The ill-fated planet may have been pulled towards n
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The mysterious death of some stars
As a song of farewell to the universe, most of the big stars explode, turning into a super-giant fireball and releasing a lot of energy when they die. But astronomers di…
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Pole Star
The North Star is the name for the star located near the north pole, most suitable for maritime trades in the northern hemisphere. To get this name, a star must be visib…
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'Snake' on the Milky Way
Something scary seems to be crawling on our galaxies in a new Halloween photograph taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. The object that looks like this snake is actu…
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Great telescope project
Australia and South Africa - which nation will own one of the great science projects of the 21st century. These are the remaining two candidates in the race to acquire t…
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The Hubble telescope demonstrates the theory of planet formation
According to the results of a group of American scientists published in the October 2006 issue of Astronomy Journal, the images obtained by Hubble Space Telescope provid…
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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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The first image of the eclipse of the celestial star Uranus
While solar eclipses often occur in two larger planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, for celestial stars, this phenomenon has never been observed until now.
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For the first time found dark matter
American astronomers say they have found the first direct evidence of the mysterious material called dark matter. Dark matter - stuff no