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Study sheds light on world in grains of interstellar dust
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study by Hokkaido University explains how dust grains form in interstellar gas and could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop valuable nanoparticles.
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Researchers measure size-luminosity relation of galaxies less than a billi
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has studied the relation between galaxy size and luminosity of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe taken by the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST
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NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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Research details wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CE
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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World's largest turbulence simulation unmasks the flow of energy in astrop
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the Sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.
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Study suggests stem cells help determine new schizophrenia drugs
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Neurodegenerative and psychiatric illnesses can be brought on by inflammation and an overactive immune system in the brain, which results in the loss of synapses and the death of neurons.
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Domestic stocks open with gains, tracking strong US and European markets
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
S&P BSE Sensex went up 317.49 points to 60,883.91 while NSE's broad-based Nifty 50 surged 106.50 points to 18,121.50 on Tuesday morning. Some of the most active stocks were Dalmia Sugars, Indian Overseas Bank, Union Bank of India, Suzlon Energy on BSE while Morepen, J and K Bank, Ajan
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Chennai's Srimathy Kesan becomes the first Indian woman to experience zero
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Srimathy Kesan, a renowned space educator hailing from the city of Chennai, has become the first Indian woman to experience zero gravity, through a celebrity space mission in the United States, which enabled her to become a one-day astronaut.
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Alien planet found spiralling to its doom around ageing star
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.
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Astronomers discover clues about stellar 'glitching'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of researchers has found new evidence that red giants, dying stars that have exhausted their supply of hydrogen and are in the
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