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Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on alien planet
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet of potential life on an alien planet, identifying chemical gases in the atmosphere of K2-18 b that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms.
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Researchers measure size-luminosity relation of galaxies less than a billi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
An international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has studied the relation between galaxy size and luminosity of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe taken by the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST
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Sun may have started life with binary companion
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], August 18 (ANI): A new theory published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass.
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Scientists determine 'Oumuamua isn't made from molecular hydrogen ice
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], August 17 (ANI): The debate over the origins and molecular structure of 'Oumuamua continued on Monday with an announcement in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that despite earlier promising claims, the interstellar object is not made of molecular hydrogen ice after all.
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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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