New Earth-Size Planet Found 地球大小的新行星被发现 Not too big, not too small. Not too hot, not too cold. A newly discovered planet looks just right for life as we know it, according to an international group of astronomers. 不太大又不太

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Back in the 1950s few women in the United States worked outside of the home, and even fewer earned doctorate degrees or went on to have professional careers. 回顾1950年代的美国,当时的女性很少在外工作的。而获得博士学位或者

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Why Do Stars Twinkle? If youve ever glanced skyward on a clear evening, youve probably noticed with some wonderment the sheer numbers of stars. Some are tiny, barely visible points. Others radiate strong white light. And from our earthly vantage poin

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By David McAlary Washington 10 January 2006 Before you continue thinking about our Milky Way galaxy as a peaceful, spiral disk of stars slowly rotating through the heavens, consider this: It is hungri

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By David McAlary Washington 22 February 2007 As populations and cities grow, our once pristine view of the stars is being whitewashed by urban glow. Astronomers, whose view of the heavens is being dimmed, are complaining, but biologists are also decr

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By Paul Sisco Washington 19 March 2008 The planet Saturn has long fascinated astronomers because of its distinctive rings and multiple moons. NASA's Cassini spacecraft visited one of Saturn's moons last week, collecting samples, data and pictures of

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By David McAlary Was 16 August 2006 Artist's rendition of solar system There may soon be three new planets in our solar system. The expansion would be the result of a proposed new definition of what a planet is. The change is controversial, but if a

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We've transported the earth 3 billion years into the future. The sky is dominated by a massive galaxy called Andromeda. The view looks peaceful enough. But whats about to happen is one of the greatest calamities in the universe. The clues lie in thes

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One type of giant planet orbits very close to its star, we call them hot Jupiters because these Jupiter-like planets are so close that they are blowtorched by the intense heat from the star. The other sort of planet we have found is also bizarre. Wev

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So what we are looking at is a region about 200 million light years across which is actually just a small part of our really big simulation that we call Bolshoi which is Russian for big. Everything that you see here is actually completely invisible.

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Its extremely frustrating because this region, this time period holds within it, in some sense, the rose headstone of / galaxy formation. But there are clues as to what was happening inside those dense hydrogen clouds. Look back even further in time

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But dark matter does more than simply holds galaxy like ours together. Astronomers think it binds the Milky Way into an extraordinary structure along with billions of other galaxies. To explore it, we'll take a journey to the very edge of the univers

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They were once thought to mark the outer limits, but today astronomers believe the Milky Way galaxy is much bigger than what we can see. To understand why, we will travel to the stars of the outer galactic disc. Far from our usual place in space, we

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To understand how these calamities occur, astronomers need to catch a massive star in its death throes. Astronomers are like detectives. We have to figure out what's going on in the universe, sometimes based on a minimum number of clues. And in the c

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Once theyve caught the light of a dying star with their state of our telescopes. The detective work can begin. We collect that light and we analyze it in great detail in order to determine whats going on, whats the chemical makeup of the star, whats

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By Cindy Saine Washington 14 May 2008 Scientists have announced the discovery of the youngest known exploding star, or supernova, in our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers say the remnant of the most recent supernova could provide clues to a long-standing

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Vesta 灶神星 You can see the planet Jupiter on a clear night, but Jupiter is humongous. Mars and Mercury are smaller than that, and you can see them, too. Wait a minute, our moon is even smaller, and you can see that. Could anything smaller than t

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Transcript for Reference Only --chunshan The infrared astronomical satellite, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, gave us the first all sky view of our dusty infrared universe. Floating above the galactic center is the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud, about 400

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Terrestrial Planet Finder 瑞士科学家米歇尔梅耶带领欧洲科学家小组宣布发现了一颗新的可能适宜人类居住的星球,现在,他又制定了更大的目标:寻找地外生命的迹象。该发现小组的成员斯蒂凡尤

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Parallax 视差就是从有一定距离的两个点上观察同一个目标所产生的方向差异。从目标看两个点之间的夹角,叫做这两个点的视差,两点之间的距离称作基线。只要知道视差角度和基线长度,就

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