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Madagascar hippos were forest dwellers: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers discovered that extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than the open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa.
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Study reveals one-third of galaxy's most common planets could be in habita
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers found, in the Milky Way, the yellow sun is comparatively uncommon. The vast majority of stars are far smaller, colder, and only have up to half the sun's mass. In our galaxy, countless planets orbit these familiar dwarf stars.
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J-K horticulture dept introduces hi-tech poly houses, high yielding variet
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Horticulture Department of the Jammu and Kashmir Government has introduced hi-tech poly houses named Walnut Nursery along with high-yielding dwarf varieties in a bid to increase the state's walnut production.
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West Bengal: BSF rescues exotic birds from smugglers trying to cross over
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Two birds belonging to an exotic species were rescued from smugglers in a search operation carried out by the Border Security Force (BSF), said officials on Thursday.
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Starry tail tells tale of dwarf galaxy evolution: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates that the galaxy has experienced recent interaction with another galaxy. This is an important clue for understanding how so-called "ultra-diffuse" galaxies are formed
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Scientists explain how Butterfly Nebula got its wings
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel, becoming hot, dense white dwarf stars that are roughly the size of Earth. The material that was shed, enriched in carbon, forms dazzling patterns as it is blown gently into the interstell
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Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likel
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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets
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Study: Feline genetics help pinpoint first-ever domestication of cats
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first switch from hunter-gatherers to farmers. They developed close bonds with the rodent-eating cats that conveniently served as ancient pest-
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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.
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Study of 'polluted' white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow togethe
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team of astronomers has found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
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Life on other planets or space creatures narrowed down
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
California [US], October 21 (ANI): The most prevalent type of star in the universe, the M dwarf, has an Earth-like planet orbiting it that appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets.
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