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黑洞可用于参考寻找暗物质
11-09-20 Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter -- the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe -- may find a helpful tool in the recent work of researchers from Princeton University and New York University. The team unve...
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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...
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天文学家发现最远的类星体
11-06-30 This quasar（类星体） is a vital probe of the early Universe. It is a very rare object that will help us to understand how supermassive black holes grew a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, says Stephen Warren, the study's team leader. Qu...
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星体可用来追踪太空垃圾
11-05-29 A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cdiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary（与地球旋转同步的） objects using the position of the stars, which could help to monitor s...
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如何确定天体的年龄
11-05-25 For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a star is one billion or 10 billion years old? Astron...
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社交网站可能降低明星吸引力
11-05-24 Celebrities who bombard fans with Twitter updates are likely to have shorter careers than those who maintain an aura of mystique, according to a survey. 根据一项调查，频繁更新Twitter、让粉丝随时知道动态的名人有可能比那些保持神秘感的名人的艺术生涯短...
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines
11-04-27 Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'the night is starry（星光照耀的） and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance'. The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and s...
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欧洲天文台发现两颗棕矮星
11-03-24 Brown dwarfs are essentially failed stars: they lack enough mass for gravity to trigger the nuclear reactions that make stars shine. The newly discovered brown dwarf, identified as CFBDSIR 1458+10B, is the dimmer member of a binary（二元的） brown d...
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Stars on a Snowy Night
11-03-24 The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle（少量） of twinkling dots, yet I had beco...
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研究：12星座起始日期应后推一个月
11-01-15 美国明尼苏达州的一位天文学家研究发现，我们现在遵循的12星座起始日期是错误的，每个星座时段都应该后移一个月。 Earth's shifts on its axis over the past 3,000 years have changed the 12 zodiac signs. A Minnesota astronomer confirms what many have suspecte...
