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Research: Short gamma-ray bursts traced farther into distant universe
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Astronomers have developed the most extensive inventory to date of the galaxies where short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) originate. Using several highly sensitive instruments and sophisticated galaxy modeling, the researchers pinpointed the galactic homes of 84 SGRBs and probed the characteristi
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Study of 'polluted' white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow togethe
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team of astronomers has found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
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New study finds oldest planetary debris in our galaxy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the oldest star in our galaxy that is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary systems discovered in the Milky Way.
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Astronomers discover closest black hole to earth
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away,
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Oldest star clusters in universe revealed
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The James Webb Telescope has been used by a group of Canadian astronomers, including specialists from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, to identify the most distant globular clusters ever found.
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Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an el
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Scientists discover swirling galaxies unite around red quasar in 'monster'
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 21 (ANI): Using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time at the early universe, astronomers discovered a surprise: a cluster of galaxies merging together around a rare red quasar within a massive black hole. The findings offer an unprecedented opportunity
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Astronomers discover heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosph
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 15 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b two exoplanets, planets which orb
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Dust plumes observed being 'pushed' into interstellar space by intense sta
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 13 (ANI): Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can 'push' matter. Researchers made the observation when tracking a giant plume of dust generated by the violent interactions between two massive stars.
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Check out what is the heaviest element ever found in exoplanet's atmospher
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], October 13 (ANI): The heaviest element ever identified in an exoplanet atmosphere, barium, has been found by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory. They were shocked to find barium in the atmospheres of the exoplanets WASP-76
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Black hole discovered shooting fiery jet at nearby galaxy: Astronomers
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 12 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet at another galaxy. The black hole is hosted by a galaxy around one billion light years away from Earth named RAD12.
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Astronomers discover 'cataclysmic' star pair with shortest orbit yet
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The system seems to be one of a rare class of binaries known as a "cataclysmic variable," in
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