Have We Found the First Moon outside the Solar System?

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CNN 2011-12-10

CNN News from here Atlanta, Georgia straight to your classrooms, Im Carl Azuz, this is CNN Student News. Today were starting something called a payroll tax. Heres the deal on the payroll tax from A to Z. Americans have been getting a break on their f

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. The telescope's job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightlybecause of the presence of an

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? Were on the verge of finding out how frequently habitable planets occur in the universe. That was astronomer Alan Boss at the AAAS meeting on February 14th. And I thin

SSS 2009-01-01

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute Happy New Year! And dont feel bad about taking today off. After all, youve traveled far. And Im not talking about the trip home from the party last night. According to N

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It used to be that finding even one new planet was enough to make an astronomer's career. 曾经即便是找到一颗新卫星都足以成就一名天文学家的事业。 Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, who these days has, among o

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WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

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Tonight the moon looks bigger and brighter than usual. It is a Super Moon. Actually it is a full moon but also a perigree moon when it is the closest to the Earth during its orbit. These two events are happening together tonight. It last happened Mar

Russia's Mission Control raises ISS by 10.2 km

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

NASA发现“另一个地球”

Today we're announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that as far as we can tell is a pretty good close cousin to the earth and our sun An historic moment in NASA's epic pursuit of earth-like planets, as the newly discovered Kepler-452b was officially

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