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Massive stars are factories for ingredients to life
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Maryland [US], October 10 (ANI): The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), NASA's flying observatory, has provided a new glimpse of chemistry surrounding massive young stars where future planets could begin to form. It found massive quantities of water and organic molecul
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Carbon creation finding set to rock astrophysics
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Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): A new measurement of how quickly stars create carbon may trigger a major shift in our understanding of how stars evolve and die, how the elements are created, and even the origin and abundance of the building blocks of life.
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Mars to be opposite, closest to Sun on October 13
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Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Planet Mars will be opposite and closest to the Sun in the sky on October 13.
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Growing up stardust: Scientists discover that stars, planets may be siblin
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Massachusetts [US], October 8 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered that the planets begin forming while stars are still infants and they grow up together like siblings.
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Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
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Perth [ Australia], October 6 (ANI): Astronomers from the University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.
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NASA lifts off SS Kalpana Chawla cargo spacecraft
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Wallops Island [US], October 3 (ANI): A commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS) launched on Friday night carrying the name of deceased NASA astronaut Kalpana "K.C." Chawla, the first Indian-born woman to enter space, for her key contributions to human s
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First Direct Observation of Exoplanet Beta Pictoris c
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Washington [US] October 2 (ANI): Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity.
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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
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Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): Einstein's general theory of relativity -- the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime -- has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test by University of Arizona astrophysicists from the Event Horizon Telescope collabor
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Recipe is different, but titan has ingredients for life
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Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): In a study recently published by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Neish -- a member of Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Western Space) -- and her collaborators at the European Space Agency (ESA) used advanced imaging technology to investigate
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The way forward to Mars
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Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the Martian surface on 10 June 2023, at around 17:30 CEST (15:30 UTC).
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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
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Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to
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Problems in finding a life partner? Let Astrology guide you
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New Delhi [India] September 27 (ANI/Mediawire): Marriages were simpler in olden days. Marriages were solemnized at an early age and as soon as a boy or girl reached marriageable age, the elders in the family started searching for a suitable bride or groom. As per the best astrologer in Delhi
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