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Star formation project maps nearby Interstellar clouds
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 24 (ANI): Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation.
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Astronomers catch rare eclipse of double brown dwarf system
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): Astronomers working on "first light" data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped.
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NASA opens doors for future astronauts for next Moon, Mars missions
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 2 (ANI): Aspiring space explorers can now apply to NASA as the space agency has started accepting applications for the first time in more than four years.
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University student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitab
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 29 (ANI): University of British Columbia (UBC) astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
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Astronomers detect biggest explosion after Big Bang
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Perth [Australia], Feb 28 (ANI): The biggest explosion in the universe after the Big Bang has been discovered by scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster.
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Record- breaking explosion by black hole spotted
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away.
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Astronomers spot far-away planet that could possibly support life
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Cambridge [England], Feb 27 (ANI): Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth which could be potentially habitable. This discovery might take us a step closer to search for life on planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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NASA scientists spot water in Jupiter's atmosphere
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): NASA astronomers have recently revealed that our neighbourhood gas-giant, Jupiter, contains water in its atmosphere, albeit in a fractional amount.
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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated using Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.
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How newborn stars prepare for birth of planets
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion clouds.
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Megan Fox to play astronaut in upcoming thriller 'Aurora'
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): American actor-model Megan Fox is set to essay the role of an astronaut in the upcoming suspense thriller 'Aurora.'
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