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Cuttack-based astronomy team designs rover to exhibit at NASA challenge
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Cuttack (Odisha) [India], April 12 (ANI): A Cuttack-based Navonmesh Prasar Student Astronomy Team (NaPSAT), comprising of 10 school students, has designed a rover to be exhibited at NASA Human Rover Exploration Challenge 2021.
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Rania Lampou excelled by being one of "The Global Icon 2020"
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 1 (ANI/Digpu): Rania Lampou, is a Global STEM Educator par excellence from Greece. She is currently a STEM instructor at the Greek Astronomy and Space Company (Annex of Salamis) and is also working at the Greek Ministry of Education, at the Directorate of Educational
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Team from Odisha selected for NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge 2021
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], November 12 (ANI): The Navonmesh Prasar Student Astronomy Team (NaPSAT), comprising 10 school students, has been selected to participate in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge 2021 scheduled in April.
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Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India, Spain for scientific and te
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was apprised of signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the GRANTECAN, S.A.
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NASA's SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US] October 27 (ANI): The NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed
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Massive stars are factories for ingredients to life
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Maryland [US], October 10 (ANI): The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), NASA's flying observatory, has provided a new glimpse of chemistry surrounding massive young stars where future planets could begin to form. It found massive quantities of water and organic molecul
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Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Perth [ Australia], October 6 (ANI): Astronomers from the University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.
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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): Einstein's general theory of relativity -- the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime -- has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test by University of Arizona astrophysicists from the Event Horizon Telescope collabor
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Recipe is different, but titan has ingredients for life
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): In a study recently published by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Neish -- a member of Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Western Space) -- and her collaborators at the European Space Agency (ESA) used advanced imaging technology to investigate
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The way forward to Mars
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the Martian surface on 10 June 2023, at around 17:30 CEST (15:30 UTC).
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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to
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How intense and dangerous is cosmic radiation on the Moon?
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resol
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