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Banks not following RBI directive on gold margin calls: Mehrasons
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 11 (ANI): Amid spreading coronavirus and subsequent lockdown, borrowers of a gold metal loan (GML) are facing excessive heat as the price of the yellow metal has risen astronomically, triggering margin calls that need to be fulfilled.
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New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout S
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
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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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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Distant Metals reveal the Universe's evolution
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): When did the first sources of light bombard the universe's gas, tearing electrons from atoms in a period known as reionization? A new study uses the metal-filled gas surrounding galaxies to learn more about the important transition.
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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
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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10.9 million names now aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that.
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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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Astronomers catch rare eclipse of double brown dwarf system
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): Astronomers working on "first light" data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Record- breaking explosion by black hole spotted
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away.
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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated using Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.
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Findings from NASA's Juno update Jupiter water mystery
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecul
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