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New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout S
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): Newly released images of the Sun have revealed that its outer layer is filled with previously unseen, incredibly fine magnetic threads filled with extremely hot, million-degree plasma. The high-resolution observations have been analysed by researchers a
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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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NASA: Data from Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mystery
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 7 (ANI): The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of
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Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheres
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 6 (ANI): It is said that variety is the spice of life and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins University's researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' -- sulfur -- is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to signs of life.
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Current social distancing guidelines not effective in checking coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 5 (ANI): Are the current social distancing guidelines effective enough to check the spread of coronavirus? A new study is sceptical of the 3-feet-apart rule and says that the highly contagious coronavirus can travel upto 27 feet and stay airborne for hours.
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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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Kamal Nath asks Guv to postpone floor test
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Mar 16 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Monday asked Governor Lalji Tandon to postpone the floor test in the Assembly saying that the atmosphere is not "conducive" for it.
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Jyotiraditya's exit from Congress can open floodgates, no self-respecting
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tom Vadakkan on Saturday said that Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit could open the floodgates in Congress as no leader having "self-respect can survive in a suffocating environment".
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People in PoK live in atmosphere of fear, says Kashmiri leader
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 12 (ANI): A leader from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) has said that the people in the so-called 'Azad Kashmir' or Free Kashmir have no freedom and they continue to live in an atmosphere of fear.
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People whose names are mentioned in riot-accused hoardings in Lucknow can
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 7 (ANI): After Lucknow district administration put up hoardings bearing names of the people who allegedly damaged properties during anti-CAA protests on December 19 last year, activist Deepak Kabir has said that the government is creating an atmosphere of
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How Hindus saved lone Muslim family from rioters in Delhi's Madhuban mohal
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 28 (ANI): On Sunday night, Safina shuddered with fear as heard violent banging on her door. The atmosphere was charged with communal tension after stone-pelting between two groups in the locality.
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