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Astronomers offer new theory about mysterious location of massive stars
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Atlanta (Georgia) [US], February 3 (ANI): A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Now, astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for
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Study finds what rise of oxygen on early Earth reveals about life on other
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Montreal [Canada], February 3 (ANI): The question which always intrigues astronomers is, when did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from McGill University have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion
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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study
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Barcelona [Spain], February 2 (ANI): Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun. Recent research by astronomers has discovered the second Earth Trojan asteroid, almost a decade after
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Even dying stars can give birth to planets, suggest astronomers
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Leuven [Belgium], February 1 (ANI): In any galaxy, planets are usually not much older than the stars around which they revolve. For example, the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, and not long after that, Earth came into the world. But KU Leuven astronomers have discovered that a completely
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Scientists make breakthrough discovery about extreme exoplanet's atmospher
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Bern [Switzerland], January 29 (ANI): The atmosphere of planets always accounts for an interesting study for astronomers to find out how life-supporting they are. The atmosphere of Earth is not a uniform envelope but consists of distinct layers that each have characteristic properties.
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Researchers discover extraordinary black hole in neighbouring galaxy
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Utah [US], January 26 (ANI): Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode, making made it one of
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Astronomers capture red supergiant's death throes
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Evanston (Illinois) [US], January 18 (ANI): For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged in real-time the dramatic end to a red supergiant's life -- watching the massive star's rapid self-destruction and final death throes before collapsing into a type II supernova.
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Indian astronomers discover a new exoplanet and rare stars hotter than Sun
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 26 (ANI): Indian astronomers have added another feather to their cap as they have recently made two new discoveries -- an exoplanet 1.4x the size of Jupiter and a rare class of radio stars hotter than the Sun.
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Study suggests there could be 1 in 5 galaxies hidden behind cosmic dust
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], November 23 (ANI): Two previously invisible galaxies that are 29 billion light-years away have been discovered by the astronomers at the University of Copenhagen's Cosmic Dawn Center.
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Astronomers team up to create new method to understand galaxy evolution
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 16 (ANI): A team of astronomers at The University of Toledo joined forces for the first time in their scientific careers during the pandemic to develop a new method to look back in time and change the way we understand the history of galaxies.
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Near-earth asteroid might be lost fragment of moon: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): According to a new paper by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon.
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Study finds Oort Cloud may be home to more interstellar objects
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 24 (ANI): In a new study, astronomers have calculated that in the Oort Cloud -- a shell of debris in the farthest reaches of our solar system -- interstellar objects outnumber objects belonging to our solar system.
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