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Astronomers determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks.
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], September 23 (ANI): Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for a life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard, and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured out how to determine wh
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School-bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighbourhood on Thursday, September 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometres) above our planet's surface.
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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Research team discovers unique supernova explosion
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): One-hundred million light-years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding. That exploding star -- which is known as 'Supernova LSQ14fmg' -- was the faraway object discovered by a 37-member international research team led by Florida State Universi
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Holding up mirror to a dark matter discrepancy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): The universe's funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality.
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Jupiter's moons could be warming each other
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the Sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them. As a result, some
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PM Modi, President Kovind condole radio astronomer Govind Swarup's demise
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the demise of Professor Govind Swarup who pioneered radio astronomy in India, saying that he was an exceptional scientist and his works have attained global commendation.
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Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real-time as humanity's most sophistic
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Stellar pulsations distribute key ingredient for life
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Maryland [USA], August 5 (ANI): As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" -- but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space? NASA's telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, is finding some answers by watching pulsating stars as they expand and contract, almost
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Radio telescopes find extrasolar planet around main-sequence star
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including Gisela Ortiz-Leon from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn discovered a Saturn-like planet orbiting a small, cool star by detecting the "wobble" in the star's motion caused by the gravi
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