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Perseid meteor shower to be visible from August 11
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 10 (ANI): The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event, is all set to return on Wednesday night.
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Bhubaneswar witnesses 'zero shadow day', a rare celestial event
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], May 22 (ANI): The residents of Bhubaneswar witnessed a 'zero shadow day', a celestial event, in the city yesterday.
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Chithirai festival takes place sans devotees at Madurai's Meenakshi Temple
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 24 (ANI): The famous annual Chithirai festival, wherein the celestial wedding of Goddess Madurai Meenakshi Amman with her consort Lord Sundareswarar happens, was conducted in a minimalistic manner at Madurai's Meenakshi Amman Temple on Saturday.
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Indigenously designed, developed spectrograph can locate faint light from
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cos
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Ajmer man gifts plot of land on Moon to wife on wedding anniversary
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ajmer (Rajasthan) [India], December 27 (ANI): Many people dream of owning a piece of the Moon and that dream became a reality for Ajmer's Sapna Anija when her husband Dharmendra Anija gifted her three acres of land on the celestial body on their wedding anniversary.
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Here's how to prepare for the Perseids meteor shower on its annual return
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], August 6 (ANI): The Perseid meteor shower, an annual celestial event widely loved by millions of skywatchers around the world, is about to make its annual return to the night sky.
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'Ring of fire' solar eclipse 2020 to occur tomorrow
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): A rare celestial event, annular solar eclipse, which is popularly known as the "ring of fire" eclipse, will be visible this Sunday in India.
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President Trump signs executive order for Recovery and Use of Space Resou
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 7 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a new executive order aimed at encouraging international support for its policy allowing private industry for recovery and use of space resources from the Moon, Mars and other celestial bodies.
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New Horizons space probe provides insights about planet formation
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons provided the science community with fresh new insights about the process of planet formation after it flew past a celestial body named Arrokoth, which is situated at the fringes of our solar system in the Kui
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First penumbral lunar eclipse of the year 2020
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 10 (ANI): A celestial spectacle, the first lunar eclipse of the year will be visible as a penumbral lunar eclipse tonight.
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Kerala: 'Payasam' offered to people to dispel myth of not consuming food d
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Visitors who reached Central Stadium here to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse, were given 'payasam' to dispel the superstition of not consuming food during the celestial event on Thursday.
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'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse to be visible across Middle East, south-east
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 26 (ANI): An annular solar eclipse, said to be the last big celestial event of the year, will be visible across the Middle East, south-east Asia and Australia on Thursday.
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