Now, its the question that has gripped generations. Is there anyone out there? Well, there is a plan to send a message to a planet just one trillion miles away from us. A project has been launched to collect messages from everyone. The most popular o

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This cluster the Pleiades mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey, they appear in the Bible and in some of the goddess by the Aztecs and the Maya, but the interesting thing is that the Pleiades are so young, that early dinosaur never saw them, because at t

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Astronomers: Evidence Found of First Stars Astronomers have observed what they believe is the formation of the universe 13.6 billion years ago, when the earliest stars were just starting to shine. The astronomers say their observations may also have

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Scientists Observe Birth of Huge Galaxy Cluster For the first time ever, astronomers have observed the birth of a galaxy cluster, known as a protocluster. The event, billions of light-years away, could form one of the largest-known structures in toda

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斯蒂芬.沃尔夫勒姆,Mathematica的创始人,谈论了他试图通过搜索、处理及操作各种信息从而计算所有知识的构想。他的新一代搜索引擎,Wolfram Alpha,致力于对宇宙根本的物理问题进行建模和解

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Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. If you've ever been to a planetarium, you know what it's like to look at stars and planets while an expert guide explains what you're looking at.

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Dialogue 1 Mark: How's life treating you, Jingjing? 马克:最近这怎样,京晶? Jingjing: Didn't you ask me that last week? Anyway, it's going smoothly. I wish I could say the same for Stephen Hawking. 京晶:上周不是问过我了吗?好

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It suggested a baffling paradox that quasars are really shining black holes, capable of emitting the energy of entire galaxies. But Lynden-Bell then went further. I predicted that there would be these massive objects found in the nearby galaxies. He

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But if watching matter tumble over the edge of a black hole might now be possible, it is only because of the efforts of a generation of astronomers to wrestle these dark dragons of the cosmos into the realms of scientific reality. As is often the cas

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And are we alone?. 二是我们是否唯一。 Those 2 deep questions drive us all through our whole lives. 这两个深刻问题伴随着我们的整个生命。 And to answer those 2 questions. 要回答这两个问题。 we have to continue to exp

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Directs a great deal of that bucket blast around your waistband. 仍然会将大量的水引向你的腰间。 So you get a lot less cold water in your trousers. 抽出下摆 能够让水较少地流进裤子里。 I know this to be true. 我知道这是

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About 4.6 billion years ago, a great swirl of gas and dust some 15 billion miles across accumulated in space where we are now and began to aggregate. Virtually all of it99.9 percent of the mass of the solar systemwent to make the Sun. Out of the floa

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At this point, about 4.5 billion years ago, an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth, blowing out enough material to form a companion sphere, the Moon. Within weeks, it is thought, the flung material had reassembled itself into a single clump, a

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Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good. Nobody knows how many stars there are in the Milky Wayestimates range from 100 billion or so to perhaps 400 billionand the Milky Way is just one of 140 billi

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But Zwicky was also capable of insights of the most startling brilliance. In the early 1930s, he turned his attention to a question that had long troubled astronomers: the appearance in the sky of occasional unexplained points of light, new stars. 然而

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Evans's is a talent so exceptional that Oliver Sacks, in An Anthropologist on Mars, devotes a passage to him in a chapter on autistic savantsquickly adding that there is no suggestion that he is autistic. Evans, who has not met Sacks, laughs at the s

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Calsphere 卡尔斯菲尔美国拦截卫星 CAMEO(Chemically Activated Mater. Ejected inOrb.) 卡梅欧(轨道放射化学激活物质)美国科学卫星 Canister 茶叶罐美国小型军事空间站 C

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But, as powerful as Rome may have been, they couldn't change the rules of the universe, and neither of these calendars add up to anywhere close to the time it takes us to orbit the sun. After a few years, the seasons are out of whack with the months,

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Literature is the greatest reality simulator, a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you could ever directly witness. 文学是最棒的现实仿真器,让你体验各种

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