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Mars to be opposite, closest to Sun on October 13
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Planet Mars will be opposite and closest to the Sun in the sky on October 13.
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New study shows colliding neutron stars may unlock mysteries of universe e
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Florida [US], July 8 (ANI): The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has proven itself instrumental in another major astronomical discovery.
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Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worlds
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], June 23 (ANI): A new study in the Astronomical Journal reports on the detection of the exoplanet HIP 67522 b, which appears to be the youngest hot Jupiter ever found.
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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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From lab to space: Discovery of new organic molecule in interstellar molec
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations conducted by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (
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Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, after a 26-year slumber. This is the second-closest such object known to date, with a brightness greater than a million Suns.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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Fresh antimatter study will help search for dark matter
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 29 (ANI): The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far at the Large Hadron Collider.
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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospher
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
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Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Move aside, AT2018COW. There is a new astronomical transient in the universe, and it is faster, heavier and brighter at radio wavelengths than its mysterious predecessors.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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Exoplanet climate 'Decoder' aids search for life
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental colour "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far aw
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