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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
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Birth of 'Snowman' at edge of solar system
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Haifa [Israel], April 23 (ANI): New research by a team of astronomers shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, asteroid-like objects at the edge of the solar system, and for understanding the early stages of the solar system's formation.
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Astronomers find a planet that never was
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Tucson [Arizona], April 21 (ANI): Astronomers have found out that what was thought to be a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direct imaging likely never existed.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
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California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
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California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): Researchers, led by Western University's Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i's Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light,
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New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout S
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): Newly released images of the Sun have revealed that its outer layer is filled with previously unseen, incredibly fine magnetic threads filled with extremely hot, million-degree plasma. The high-resolution observations have been analysed by researchers a
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Japanese astronomers explain oddities of planet Uranus
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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
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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
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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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