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Astronomers witness supergiant star’s death in real-time (VIDEO)

For the first time ever, scientists were able to track a red supergiant in real-time during its final 130 days, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and death throes before a violent explosion. It was previously believed that red supergiant stars remained calm and didn’t show any symptoms of approaching …

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Astronomers found water on the asteroid Itokawa

This confirms confirms the hypothesis that water once fell on the Earth due to asteroid collision. Researchers from the University of Arizona found traces of water in the soil samples of the asteroid Itokawa brought back by the Japanese probe Hayabusa in 2010. Team Arizona has studied five of the …

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Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet

The exoplanet orbits a star of the main sequence KELT-9. Exoplanet atmosphere, which is heated to such high temperatures that it contains a pair of titanium and iron, found in the constellation Cygnus. On the planet literally float the “iron” of the cloud. Planetary scientists have published their observations in …

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Astronomers have found a “galactic desert”

The space contained an unusually few large, active galaxies. Observations of the oldest galaxies of the Universe have helped astrophysicists to open another “space desert” – a sphere with a diameter of approximately 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces, almost completely devoid of stars. Photos of this …

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Astronomers “weigh” a planet similar to our own

The discovery of a probable Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri was the beginning of the study the nearest star to Earth besides the Sun. Astronomers had a rare opportunity to determine its mass and to study more Earth-like planet. In the document accepted for monthly notices of the Royal astronomical …

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Astronomers have discovered lake on Mars

Astronomers believe that beneath the dusty regolith of Mars is not less than five million cubic kilometers of ice.So you can be sure that on the red planet there is no shortage of water. In the nineteenth century the American astronomer Percival Lowell popularized the idea that there are channels …

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