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IAU honours India's first professional meteor scientist Aswin Sekhar, name
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The honour was conferred on him at the 2023 edition of Asteroids Comets Meteors Conference, which took place in Arizona on June 21, 2023.
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IIT Roorkee researchers help in understanding humming of our universe obse
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
An International team of astronomers from India, Japan and Europe has recently published the results from monitoring nature's best clocks, pulsars using six of the World's most sensitive radio telescopes, including India's largest telescope, uGMRT. These results provide scintillating evidenc
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Study detects most distant organic molecules using Webb telescope
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Astronomers discovered complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The study was published in 'Nature.'
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Odisha Minister flags off ISRO tour for Tata Steel Young Astronomer Talent
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The top 20 winners, selected on the occasion of the Grand Finale of YATS on December 13, 2022, will tour various SAC labs and gain insights from India's elite space scientists, nurturing their enthusiasm in the realm of space exploration
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Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones to play Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan in Se
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Oscar-winning director Sebastian Lelio will direct Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in upcoming. "Voyagers". The film revolves around the love story between astronomer and "Contact" author Carl Sagan and documentary producer and director Ann Druyan.
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Scientists witness planet being swallowed by sun-like star, says same will
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Scientists have observed a Sun-like star swallowing a planet for the first time, confirming a prediction that Earth will face the same fate in 5 billion years.
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Terminator zones on distant planets could harbour life: Research
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
In a recent study, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine explain how the possibility of extraterrestrial life exists on far-off exoplanets within a special region known as the "terminator zone," which is a ring on planets that have one side that is always facing its star and
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New discovery sheds light on very early supermassive black holes
Updated : 3 years ago IST
One of the most extreme galaxies known to exist in the very early Universe has a fast-expanding black hole, according to astronomers from the Universities of Texas and Arizona. New information about the creation of the first supermassive black holes is revealed by the discovery of the galaxy
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Study suggests better tools required to determine ancient life on Mars
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a research team co-led by a Cornell University astronomer, current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments.
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Astronomers detect radio signal from atomic hydrogen in distant galaxy
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Using GMRT data, Arnab Chakraborty, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics and Trottier Space Institute of McGill University and Nirupam Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IISc have detected a radio signal from atomic hydrogen in a distant galaxy at redshift z=1
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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Study sheds light on world in grains of interstellar dust
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study by Hokkaido University explains how dust grains form in interstellar gas and could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop valuable nanoparticles.
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