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New clues regarding formation of solar system discovered
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born.
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Astronomers find a 'break' in one of Milky Way's spiral arms: NASA
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 17 (ANI): NASA on Tuesday announced scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized feature of our Milky Way galaxy: A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms like a splinter poking out from a pl
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Astronomers spot 'blinking giant' near center of Galaxy
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 13 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light-years away.
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Smile, Wave: some exoplanets may be able to see Earth, too
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 21 (ANI): Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away -- resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph -- two astronomers now offer another unique cosmic perspective that some exoplane
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Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Perth [ Australia], October 6 (ANI): Astronomers from the University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.
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First Direct Observation of Exoplanet Beta Pictoris c
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US] October 2 (ANI): Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity.
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Astronomers determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks.
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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Earth-sized 'Pi planet' discovered by astronomers at MIT
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], September 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with others, have discovered an earth-sized "Pi Planet" that revolves around its star every 3.14 days.
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Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): A rare molecule -- phosphine -- has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, an international team of astronomers announced today leading to speculation of life on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
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NASA congratulates Indian astronomers on Star Galaxy discovery
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], September 2 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the farthest Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth.
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Indian astronomers discover 'one of the farthest' star galaxies in univers
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): Indian astronomers have discovered one of the farthest star galaxies in the universe, estimated to be located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, informed the Department of Space, Indian Government.
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