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Astronomers catch rare eclipse of double brown dwarf system
Updated : 6 years 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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University student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitab
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 29 (ANI): University of British Columbia (UBC) astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
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Findings from NASA's Juno update Jupiter water mystery
Updated : 6 years 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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Scientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a 'vampire' star in the midst of a feeding frenzy, with the help of an automated program that is sifting through archived data from the decommissioned Kepler Space Telescope.
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Giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously th
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Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests that giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
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Hot gas feeds formation of material in spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], Jan 14 (ANI): A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has recently gained insights about the origin of material present in the spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy.
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Scientists date merger of Milky Way with dwarf galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): The dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus collided with the Milky Way probably approximately 11.5 billion years ago. The Milky Way has encountered several other galaxies in its 13.5 billion-year history. One of them is the dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus. To understand
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Study reveals some gnome galaxies host massive blackholes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): A new hint towards finding out the early history of galaxy formation comes up as the astronomers discover 13 new black holes in some dwarf galaxies which are not more than a billion light-years away from our planet.
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Map of Milky Way Galaxy reveals presence of stellar nurseries wave
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Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 8 (ANI): Astronomers from Harvard University have found the presence of a wave-shaped gaseous structure named 'Radcliffe Wave' in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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NASA's Webb telescope may be used to identify planets with oxygen: Study
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Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 7 (ANI): Researchers in a recent study have found out how to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for quickly identifying nearby planets that could help in researchers search for life and search of the worlds that are uninhabitable due to vapourisation of oceans.
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India is quite ahead in field of astronomy, our initiatives path-breaking:
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 29 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India is quite advanced in the field of astronomy and has taken path-breaking initiatives in the field.
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Gas disk around young planet raises questions on planet formation theory
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo (Japan), Dec 23 (ANI): In a recent study, astronomers have found a young star -- 49 Ceti -- using the instrument Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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