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天文学家发现第四颗冥王星卫星
11-07-21 Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto（冥王星） . The tiny, new satellite temporarily designated P4 -- was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet....
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嫦娥奔月
11-07-15 One day, when Houyi was out, Chang'e secretly swallowed the potion（一剂） in the hope that she would become immortal. The result was quite unexpected: she felt herself becoming light, so light that she flew up in spite of herself, drifting and floa...
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首个阿耳特弥斯月球探测器进入预定轨道
11-06-30 The first of two ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun) spacecraft is now in its lunar orbit. On June 22, ARTEMIS P1 began firing its thrusters（推进器） to move out of its kidney-...
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月球内部水储量与地球相当
11-05-27 There is water inside the moon so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt in...
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2011年首次日偏食今日出现
11-01-04 Tuesday will see the first partial solar eclipse of 2011. 本周二将出现2011年首次日偏食景象。 Observers should NOT look directly at the Sun during this event People standing across a great swathe（带子，绷带） of the Earth's surface will see the Moon...
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12月21日冬至日将发生月蚀
10-12-18 With frigid（寒冷的，严寒的） temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice（冬至） on December 21 may not be an occasion many people feel like celebrating. But a dazzling（耀眼的） total lunar eclipse...
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天文学家利用月亮探测中微子
10-12-01 Seeking to detect mysterious, ultra-high-energy neutrinos（中微子） from distant regions of space, a team of astronomers used the Moon as part of an innovative telescope system for the search. Their work gave new insight on the possible origin of th...
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月球背面高地的形成分析
10-11-12 A bulge（膨胀，凸出部分） of elevated topography（地势） on the farside of the moon--known as the lunar farside highlands--has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that...
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如何利用卫星测量星体重量
10-10-18 How do astronomers weigh a star that's trillions of miles away and way too big to fit on a bathroom scale（体重秤） ? In most cases they can't, although they can get a best estimate using computer models of stellar structure. New work by astrophysic...
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“嫦娥二号”卫星发射成功
10-10-04 西昌卫星发射中心10月1日宣布，嫦娥二号卫星准确入轨，发射圆满成功。 Long March 3C rocket carrying China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, lifts off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Provinc...
