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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Research: 2400 new eyes on the sky to view cosmic rainbows
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Subaru Telescope successfully demonstrated engineering first light with a new instrument that will use about 2400 fiberoptic cables to capture the light from heavenly objects. Full operation is scheduled to start around 2024. The ability to observe thousands of objects simultaneously wil
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Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an el
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Rapidly descending dark energy leading to end of cosmic expansion: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 6 (ANI): Researchers described a model of dark energy which suggests that the currently observed accelerated expansion of the universe could end as soon as 100 million years from now, at which point the universe would smoothly transition to a phase of slow contraction.
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Physicists propose new candidate particle that makes "dark matter"
Updated : 6 years ago IST
York [England], Mar 4 (ANI): Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the universe during the Big Bang.
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1.2 million galaxies mapped in quest for dark energy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has put more than a million galaxies up to 6 billion light years away on the largest ever 3D map of the universe in an attempt to precisely measure Dark Energy.
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