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New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout S
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): Newly released images of the Sun have revealed that its outer layer is filled with previously unseen, incredibly fine magnetic threads filled with extremely hot, million-degree plasma. The high-resolution observations have been analysed by researchers a
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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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Distant Metals reveal the Universe's evolution
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): When did the first sources of light bombard the universe's gas, tearing electrons from atoms in a period known as reionization? A new study uses the metal-filled gas surrounding galaxies to learn more about the important transition.
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Indian astronauts' training on hold in Russia due to COVID-19 lockdown
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New Delhi [India], Apr 7 (ANI): Due to the ongoing lockdown in Russia over COVID-19 outbreak threat, the Russian authorities have put on hold the training of four Indian officers aspiring to become astronauts for the human flight under the Gaganyan mission planned in 2022.
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Japanese astronomers explain oddities of planet Uranus
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Tokyo [Japan], April 6 (ANI): The strange axis of rotation of planet Uranus and the unusual properties of its moons and ring system are likely due to an ancient giant icy impact, suggests a study conducted by researchers of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detec
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NASA: SunRISE Mission to study causes of giant solar particle storms
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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space. The information not only improves understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimat
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Ryan Gosling to star in astronaut drama 'Project Hail Mary'
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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 28 (ANI): Ryan Gosling is set to blast off into space again for the film adaptation of the upcoming science fiction novel 'Project Hail Mary' after 2018's 'First Man'.
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10.9 million names now aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that.
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Paired with super telescopes, model Earth's guide hunt for life
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New York [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): After conducting research, astronomers from Cornell University have created five models representing key points from Earth's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs.
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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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