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US, Japanese, Russian astronauts blast off to space station
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], December 17 (ANI): A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying a three-member crew of astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States, was launched on Sunday to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Eyeing Mars, Trump to send astronauts back to moon
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], December 12 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump has signed a space policy directive instructing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to send American astronauts back to moon with the objective of creating a base for Mars mission.
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Stars among the oldest in our galaxy discovered
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 21 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way.
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Indian telescope measures star in Taurus constellation: ISRO
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday said that the nation's multi-wavelength space telescope AstroSat measured the X-ray polarisation of the Crab pulsar (star) in the Taurus constellation.
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Kate Upton, Justin Verlander get hitched in Italy
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Nov 5 (ANI): Days after his team won the 2017 World Series, baseball star Justin Verlander tied the knot with American model Kate Upton in Italy.
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Oldest recorded solar eclipse may rewrite history of Egyptian Pharaohs
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], October 30 (ANI): A new study have found the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded, helping to date the Egyptian pharaohs.
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Google celebrates 107th b`day of Nobel-winning astrophysicist S. Chandrase
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct 19 (ANI): Thursday's Doodle celebrates the 107th birth anniversary of Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theory on the evolution of stars.
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India's Shelly Maheshwari Gupta crowned third princess at Mrs Universal -
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 16 (ANI-BusinessWire India): India's Shelly Maheshwari Gupta, representing as Mrs. Asia Pacific was crowned 3rd Princess Universal Elegance at the prestigious Mrs. Universal 2017 held in London recently.
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Ayodhya ascetic calls for 'social boycott' of fake 'Babas'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 11 (ANI): Welcoming the list of "fake babas" by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, Swami Hardayal Shastri, the astrologer in Shanidhaam temple of Ayodhya, on Monday called for a social boycott of those listed.
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Asteroid named after Manipur Scientist
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Manipur (Imphal) [India] August 10 (ANI): International Astronomical Union (IAU) named an asteroid after a young Indian scientist Dr. Guneshwar Thangjam here.
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2 out of 5 women of colour feel 'unsafe' in science jobs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 12 (ANI): Women's movement may have come on in leaps and bounds, but it turns out, the journey is still a long one, especially for women of colour working in astronomy, when it comes to the workplace.
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Clumps of new stars 'spotted' in a galaxy far, far away
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 7 (ANI): A team of astronomers has pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beyond its limits to spot the clumps of new stars in a distant galaxy.
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