• 美国发现围绕两颗恒星运转的行星

    11-09-16 A planet orbiting two suns - the first confirmed alien world of its kind - has been found by Nasa's Kepler telescope, the US space agency announced. 美国太空总署宣布,一颗环绕两个太阳运转的行星被开普勒望远镜发现,这是首次被确定的此种外部星体。 An ar...

  • 美宇航局发现“超视觉世界”

    11-09-09 Usually, running five minutes late is a bad thing since you might lose your dinner reservation or miss out on tickets to the latest show. But when a planet runs five minutes late, astronomers get excited because it suggests that another world is nea...

  • 矮行星2007 OR10上发现冰水

    11-08-23 Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 -- nicknamed Snow White -- is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing...

  • 卡西尼号航天器观测到土卫六“季风雨”

    11-03-18 As spring continues to unfold on Saturn(土星) , April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane(甲烷) rain to its equatorial(赤道的) deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This is the firs...

  • 火星上发现一处陨石坑

    11-03-06 ESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated(细长的) impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of projectiles striking the planet at a shallow...

  • 地球价值3千万亿英镑 全宇宙最高

    11-03-05 美国加州大学圣克鲁兹分校的一位天体物理学教授利用自创的公式计算出了宇宙中不同天体的价值,其中地球价值为3千万亿英镑,是最贵的一个,火星的价值只有1万英镑,而金星则一文不值。 A scientist has created a formula to calculate the worth of planet Earth and h...

  • 《小王子》温情语录

    11-02-13 If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, Somewhere, my flower is there But if the sheep eats the flo...

  • 奥德赛成为服役时间最长的在轨火星探测器

    10-12-10 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL喷气推进实验室 ) announced on Thursday. On Dec. 15, the 3,340th day since that arriv...

  • 天文学家发现首颗富含碳元素的行星

    10-12-09 A peculiar(特殊的,奇怪的) gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed. The implications are big for planetary(行星的) chemistry, because without much oxygen, common rocks througho...

  • 首颗超级地球大气成分分析

    10-12-02 The planet GJ 1214b was discovered in 2009 using the HARPS instrument on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope in Chile (eso0950 - http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0950/). Initial findings suggested that this planet had an atmosphere, which has now been confir...