NASA experts with the help of wide-angle Cassini’s camera have discovered near Saturn one more satellite - 60-th.
The newborn satellite, which is about two kilometers, was named Frank. This one is the smallest of satellites as till now three-kilometer Mrtona was considered as such, and the majority from new opened bodies rotating around the giant […]

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The Canadian geologists have found out traces of the large meteorite collided with our planet about 1,85 billion years ago. The unique discovery has been found in 497,10 miles from city Sudbury in Ontario province (Canada).
According to geologists, traces of a meteorite have been discovered casually when in May, 2007 in 560 miles from Sudbury […]

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Astronomers have discovered water vapour in an atmosphere of a huge planet outside the Solar system. It became possible with the help of a powerful NASA telescope Spitzer.
The signs of water vapour have been found in the rays of light in the atmosphere of a planet called HD 189733b when it passed in front of […]

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American astronomers with the help of a huge telescope could discover scintillation of the most remote and most ancient galaxies ever seen by a person that will help to find a key to the question of origin of the universe, informs Reuters referring to the statement of the scientists.
The light discovered by researchers appeared when […]

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Launch of new NASA spacecraft Phoenix with its purpose to study an opportunity of life on the Mars, is planned for August of the current year, informs NASA press-service.
It is known, that spacecraft will study an ice surface of the Red planet in the area of the northern plains. With its help scientists are going […]

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Astronomers-amateurs, whose telescopes are united into a global network, have discovered the third extrasolar planet with very unusual characteristics: weighs more than the Jupiter, and its year lasts for only 31 hour.
Astronomers have found out this planet within the framework of Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey, TrES project, and named it TrES-3 in honor of that project.
Astronomers […]

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Astronomers have conducted a number of observations over a life of one of the most unstable stars of our galaxy – Eta Kiel which is just about to turn into Supernew one.
X-ray telescope Chandra together with Hubble space telescope have received the new interesting image of processes on one of the brightest, massive and unstable […]

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The French scientists as a result of research have found proofs that under a crust of the biggest Saturn’s satellite - the Titan, can be a life.
Researchers have found out low-frequency radiowaves on the ice Titan. And it can testify that under a firm crust of this celestial body there is liquid water so, probably, […]

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The new data received from Cassini spacecraft, show, that astronomers incorrectly pictured the structure of Saturn annuluses – it appeared that they are made of constantly born and dying combinations of particles.
The most dense and powerful rings of this giant are made not simply of great variety of particles which continuously revolve on the orbits, […]

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As a result of the biggest cooperation on search of exoplanets, astronomers from the USA, Britain and Australia have opened 28 new planets, revolving around other stars. Scientists have laid open to the public some of their results at the conference of the American astronomical society which is taking place these days in Honolulu.
Astronomers declared […]

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