This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Karen Hopkin, this will just take a minute. There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contains something like a 100 billion stars. Well, Carl Sagan would have loved to get the latest est

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The Birth of a Starby Chris Rose June 5th 2006 Henry looks carefully into the telescope which lets him see far, far away, as far away as the distant nebulae on the far edges of the Milky Way. Henry is an astronomer. He looks at the sky, and at stars

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曙光号飞船驶近谷神星 NASAs Dawn spacecraft is set to reach the dwarf planet Ceres in March and begin gathering clues about whether the icy body may have once had conditions conducive to supporting life. 美国航天(NASA)的曙光号(

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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy wit

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In 2017, European scientists plan to go on a very special space mission - landing on an asteroid. But why do they want to visit an asteroid and will there be space for Callum on the spacecraft?! 欧洲科学家计划于 2017 年进行一次航空任务 - 降落在小行

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ESA Spacecraft to Land on a Comet 欧洲航天局探测器登录彗星 After a long flight through deep space, a European Space Agency probe is finally approaching its target - a comet millions of kilometers away from earth. Scientists say the missio

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Back in January, we introduced you to the Rahimov family. They had immigrated from Uzbekistan, and we met them on the day they became U.S. citizens in Kansas City, Mo. In that story, we heard 16-year-old Murad Rahimov talk about

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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy with

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Don: It's time once again for one of those Moments of Science that we like to call Never Thought to Ask.Our never thought to ask question for the day is: Why is the earth round? Ya?l: Why is the earth round? I never thought to ask that. D: Of course

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An asteroid strike would create a huge explosion. NASA feared this might even be mistaken for a nuclear bomb. We wanted folks to know this was a natural event by Mother Nature rather than some sort of man-made event like a missile or something dreadf

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Tim has developed a map to visualize their location. And on that map, the most important are the Near-Earth asteroids, the ones closest to the planet. On the screen here is a map of the solar system. And Ive got the Sun in the centre and the third pl

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Heset out to investigate a hundred-year-old theory that said asteroids werepowered by the Sun itself. It was called the Yarkovsky effect. The Yarkovskyeffect is a very small acceleration and acts on asteroids and what it is is ifyou take a model, the

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Itsremarkable how we are able to build up this picture of whats going on millionsof miles away in the solar system. Its one of the joys of science really, justalmost like a detective picking up on those tiny clues to tell a bigger story. Sothat the b

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These are just the whole host of compounds we make. We found many of these compounds are very interesting because they play roles in life on earth. So, its clear we were making many the building blocks of life by these very processes that happened in

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To walkhere on Earth, to be alive, it thanks to a long chain of cause and effect writtendeep into the structure of the universe. A primordial process so long, and soancient that on the scale of a human life it seems almost incomprehensible. One of th

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If there's a black hole at the center of our galaxy, that's gonna force these objects that are really close to the black hole to move much faster than they would move if there were no black holes. So the first thing you wanted to see is there are ver

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Its been said that the first person on Mars is alive somewhere on earth today. Imagine its you. What do you need to know? How much you get there? What should you pack? What are some of the must-see sights and what should you avoid? Think of this as y

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By David McAlary Washington 12 January 2006 As astronomers detect more and more planets outside our solar system, they are finding that many of them have more than one sun, unlike Earth and its compan

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Scientists Renew Effort Looking for Intelligent Alien Life 科学家们重新努力寻找外星智慧生命 After the 1982 megahit E.T. the Extraterrestrial, the search for alien intelligent life was much in focus. And although no evidence has yet be

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We might not be alone in the universe. Actually, it may be confirmed as a very crowded place by new computer models developed to help identify habitable planets. Estimates of places that can sustain life have been based on the likelihood of them havi

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