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Rogue's Gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], June 25 (ANI): Astronomers have released the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of debris disks around young stars, showcasing the great variety of shapes and sizes of stellar systems during their prime planet-forming years. All of the images show evidence of plan
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Newly discovered planet zips around baby star in a week
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): Understanding how planets form is one of the main challenges scientists face when placing our own and other planetary systems in context. Planets are thought to form from the disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, but this pro
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Western Space team theorises rare exomoon discovery
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Ontario/London [Canada/ UK], June 24 (ANI): Western astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. Until then, however, the mere possibility of the find sparks e
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'Exotica' - a catalogue of one of almost every kind of observable object
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], June 23 (ANI): Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, on Tuesday released an innovative catalogue of 'Exotica' -- a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomers searching for technosignatures.
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X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of the evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may help answer some questions about the Sun and the solar system as the
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Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers discovered a remarkable neutron star known as Swift J1818.0-1607, which according to the new study is only about 240 years old -- a veritable newborn by cosmic standards.
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Why pulsars shine bright, a half-century-old mystery solved
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Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.
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Radio astronomers use a dance of three exotic stars to test universality o
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Bonn [Germany], June 11 (ANI): An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn determined with extremely high precision that gravity causes neutron stars and white dwarf stars to fall with equal accelerations.
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Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust
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Washington DC [USA], June 8 (ANI): Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them.
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Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 5 (ANI): While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary spac
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Discovery sheds new light on famed Einstein Ring
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 2 (ANI): Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii and old X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to unlock a mystery surrounding a bri
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