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New method of calculating the weight of remote black holes
At the June 2 meeting of the American Astronomical Community at St. Louis, the researchers gave astronomers a simple new way to understand black holes about 8 billion li…
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New discovery of black hole activity
Using a powerful optical telescope, researchers at Boston University (USA) captured an image of a supermassive black hole while they spewed extremely powerful charged mo…
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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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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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Japan launches airplanes ... paper into space
Japanese paper-folding scientists and experts hope to launch a paper plane from space, and learn about its journey back to earth.
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Most likely we are alone in the universe
Dr. Andrew Watson, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, thinks that the ability to find extraterrestrial life like us is extremely, ext…
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The sun will destroy the earth within 7.6 billion years
According to calculations by University of Sussex astronomers, the earth will be swallowed by the sun within 7.6 billion years if Earth's orbit doesn't change.
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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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Detecting salt deposits on Mars
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced on March 20 that the Mars probe Mars Odyssey has discovered evidence of salt sediments, dating back about 3.5 to 3.9 billion yea…
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Listen to every rhythm from the universe with supercomputers
Scientists hope that a supercomputer created by Syracuse University's physics department could help them know the sound of a black hole in space. The super computer name…
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Volcanic activity on the Moon more than 4 billion years ago
According to a study published in Nature, there is volcanic activity on the Moon 4.35 billion years ago, shortly after the formation of the planet.
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Telescope is as big as a building ... 10 floors
Astronomers were stunned by the most valuable gift to them. The charity, sponsored by Gordan Moore, co-founder of Intel, and his wife, will donate $ 200 million to build…
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The world's largest telescope will be located in Chile
The American University of the Magellan Telescope (GMT) has selected the Las Campanas area in Chile to build a second generation telescope on the ground.
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Discover more than 1,300 new asteroids
American university students have discovered more than 1,300 previously unknown asteroids. Harvard University's Planetary Center is considering to recognize this discove…
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Moon exploration robot
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Institute (USA) are studying, creating a Moon exploration and mining robot for NASA, called Scarab. They hope that the…