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Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a "deep dive" into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with the discovery of telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth.
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Study confirms light from outside our galaxy is brighter than expected
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 17 (ANI): Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies, challenging assumptions about the number and environment of stars in the unive
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Webb telescope 'Pearls' project brings exquisite views of distant galaxies
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes have provided us with spectacular images of galaxies. This all changed when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched in December 2021 and successfully completed commissioning during the first half of 2022. For astro
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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets
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Researchers have measured the survival rate of antihelium nuclei from dept
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as yet it has not been possible to prove directly that dark matter exists. A research team including Technical University of Munich (TUM) scientists has now measured for
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Celebrate New Year with Excotic Astronimia 2022 in Delhi NCR
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], December 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): Adios 2022. Say Hello in 2023. Welcome this New Year at an event hosted by the Muskan Ek Pahal Sangh (Society) Co-Powered by Kya Tum Mai Hai Talent. "Excotic Astronimia 2022" A New Year's Eve Gala - Party with a Purpose will be held from
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This tiny, hidden galaxy provides a peek into the past
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the distant, early universe. Only 1,200 light-years across, the tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131-31 has
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Research: Space atomic clocks could help uncover nature of dark matter
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy.
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NASA astronauts successfully install new roll-out solar array on space sta
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Spacewalkers, on Sunday, have successfully installed Roll-Out Solar Array on the starboard truss structure of the space station.
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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.
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Scientists made some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn.
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Genetic malfunction of brain astrocytes triggers migraine: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Migraine is one of the most disabling disorders, affecting one in seven people and causing a tremendous social and economic burden. Several findings suggest that migraine is a disease affecting a large part of the central nervous system and characterized by a global dysfunction in sensory in
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