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"Docking requires accurate, orchestrated manoeuvres," says astrophysicist
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
Former Scientist and Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, RC Kapoor, on Monday, said docking requires very accurate and carefully orchestrated manoeuvres.
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How Innovative Technology Can Solve Damaging Recruitment Frauds
Updated : 2 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14: "We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster." ~ Carl Sagan, an American astronomer, planetary scientist
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"Very inspiring": Astrophysicist Karan Jani praises India for successful l
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Days after the successful launch of India's maiden X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) to study black holes and neutron stars, Karan Jani, a professor of Astrophysics at a US-based university, said on Tuesday that the country taking the lead in several frontiers of space science is 'very
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According to research, black holes eat faster than previously thought
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is changing the way astrophysicists think about supermassive black holes' eating habits. Previously, physicists hypothesised that black holes ate slowly, but recent simulations show that black holes feed far faster than popular thinking predicts. T
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Research reveals black holes eat faster than previously expected
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is redefining how astrophysicists think about the eating habits of supermassive black holes.
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Chandrayaan-3: First mission to arrive near Lunar South Pole, possible loc
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Wednesday congratulated India for landing Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon and for joining Russia, USA and China as the only countries to achieve this feat.
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IAU honours India's first professional meteor scientist Aswin Sekhar, name
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The honour was conferred on him at the 2023 edition of Asteroids Comets Meteors Conference, which took place in Arizona on June 21, 2023.
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Astrophysicists explain why Earth's day was always 19.5 hours for more tha
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The slow and steady lengthening of the Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon has been halted for more than a billion years, according to a group of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto (U of T). They demonstrate that from around two billion years ago until 600 million y
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Potential for what India can accomplish under PM Modi knows no limits: US
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Tyson and PM Modi also held conversations about science and technology, and engineering and maths.
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FM Sitharaman visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
She was given presentations about various activities at NASA Goddard by Dr Makenzie Lystrup, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ray Rubilotta, Associate Center Director at NASA Goddard and Dr Michelle Thaller, Astrophysicist.
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Chinese rocket used to deliver spy satellites into space burns up over ski
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Chang Zheng 2D 'Long March' rocket re-entered the atmosphere on Saturday after more than 200 days in space and burned up over the skies of Nepal, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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