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Technique for asteroid interior decoding could be used to guide asteroid-d
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): With DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, NASA successfully flew a spacecraft directly at the centre of a close asteroid in late September. The stadium-sized space rock was struck by the one-way kamikaze mission, which successfully reset the asteroid
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Check out what is the heaviest element ever found in exoplanet's atmospher
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], October 13 (ANI): The heaviest element ever identified in an exoplanet atmosphere, barium, has been found by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory. They were shocked to find barium in the atmospheres of the exoplanets WASP-76
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1700 km 'Chain Reaction' Cyclothon India gate to Mumbai to promote nuclear
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 24 (ANI/ATK): Senior scientists of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) cycled for 1700 km starting from India Gate in Delhi on August 13, 2022. The campaign was to spread awareness about nuclear energy as clean, green and safe energy resource. The Cyclot
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Research: AI aids in finding new space anomalies
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], August 5 (ANI): Seven of the 11 previously undetected space anomalies were found by the SNAD team, an international network of researchers that includes Matvey Kornilov, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physics at the HSE University. In order to find anomalies using the
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Study: Why Jupiter lacks ring system like Saturn
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 21 (ANI): Jupiter should have more impressive, larger rings than Saturn since it is larger. However, according to a recent study from UC Riverside, Jupiter's enormous moons block this vision from illuminating the night sky.
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Study finds rocking shadow effect in protoplanetary discs`
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): The "rocking shadow" effect, described by astronomers from the University of Warwick, shows how discs in emerging planetary systems are oriented and how they travel around their host star. The outcome also provides hints as to how they might change over time.
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Astronomy researchers take images of four brown dwarfs
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 10 (ANI): An international team led by researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland and a group from The Open University have imaged four new brown dwarfs.
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Bhoto Jatra: A festival that celebrates Nepal's tale of jewel studded vest
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lalitpur [Nepal], June 4 (ANI): The longest-running festival of Rato Macchindranath that ends with the celebration of Bhoto Jatra is observed for at least a month to 4 months depending vaguely on the astronomy in Nepal.
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Reasons behind different colors of Uranus, Neptune: Research
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 2 (ANI): According to research at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), researchers have developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets. The model reveals that excess haze on Uranus builds up in the planet's st
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Astronomers capture image of black hole at center of the Milky Way
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Daejeon [South Korea], May 16 (ANI/Global Economic):Astronomers snapped an image of a supermassive black hole for the first time in history. This is the second result of the research team since 2019, when it presented a picture of the M87 black hole. The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Ins
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Navars Edutech makes Guinness World Record of "Most Viewers of Astronomy L
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 4 (ANI/NewsVoir): Hyderabad-based Astronomy & Space EdTech startup Navars Edutech makes the Guinness World Record of concurrent viewership of over 1750 students attending Astronomy lesson live stream on YouTube on April 24, 2022.
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4.4 million galaxies revealed by scientists in new study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Durham [England], February 26 (ANI): It is not an unknown fact that our universe has millions of galaxies, of which, we live in one: the Milky Way galaxy. But is it possible to find out how many galaxies are there? In a piece of surprising news, a Durham University astronomer collaborating w
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