Winking Star Six Centuries Ago Explained 揭秘600年前那颗一闪即逝的恒星 On March 11, 1437, Korean royal astronomers noticed something out of the ordinary in the night sky. There was a brand new star they'd never seen before, between two o

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Dr Molnar s interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, Molnar博士的兴趣源于2013年的一次会议, when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, presented some puzzling findings on a particular star seen by Kepler, a space telescope designed c

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Black Holes What is a black hole? Well, it's difficult to answer this question, since the terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon are inadequate here. Astronomers and scientist

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Astronomers have discovered a star thats running away from home. The star is speeding away at a blistering 2.6 million kilometers an hour, apparently after being cast out

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? You could think of it as the real dancing with the stars. Two white dwarf stars have been found twirling around each other to make a complete orbit in less than every 13

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Because from trillions of miles away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their stars brightness. The sad truth of the matter is that earth-like planets are near cosmic specks of dust. And therefore detecting them is really quite ha

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