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Japanese astronomers explain oddities of planet Uranus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
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
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
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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Paired with super telescopes, model Earth's guide hunt for life
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
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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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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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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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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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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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objects
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with the Earth in the future. They did their research with the help of an artificial neural network.
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Love the stars? Astronomers have a unique suggestion for Valentine's Day
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 11 (ANI): Few sights are more romantic than a star-filled sky, but there are fewer places on Earth where we can still enjoy a truly dark, star-filled sky. Light pollution means we risk losing one of the most romantic spectacles in nature, so this Valentine's Day as
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