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Researchers shed new light on solar flares
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models.
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Why pulsars shine bright, a half-century-old mystery solved
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.
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The detective aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an instrument on the end of the rover's robotic arm, will h
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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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