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Astronomers find a planet that never was
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tucson [Arizona], April 21 (ANI): Astronomers have found out that what was thought to be a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direct imaging likely never existed.
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Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeup
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing a glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks, using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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A signal like none before
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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NASA to launch American astronauts to Space Station from US soil next mont
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 18 (ANI): NASA on Friday announced that it will launch two American astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a rocket built by the company SpaceX on May 27.
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NASA astronauts Meir, Morgan and crewmate Skripochka return from space sta
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 17 (ANI): NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan have returned to Earth on Friday, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): Researchers, led by Western University's Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i's Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light,
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New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of the solar w
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Banks not following RBI directive on gold margin calls: Mehrasons
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 11 (ANI): Amid spreading coronavirus and subsequent lockdown, borrowers of a gold metal loan (GML) are facing excessive heat as the price of the yellow metal has risen astronomically, triggering margin calls that need to be fulfilled.
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