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Two bizarre brown dwarfs found with citizen scientists' help
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 11 (ANI): With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs and balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do.
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Super-earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], June 26 (ANI): In research led by the University of Gottingen, the RedDots team of astronomers has detected a system of super-Earth planets orbiting the nearby star Gliese 887, the brightest red dwarf star in the sky.
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Radio astronomers use a dance of three exotic stars to test universality o
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bonn [Germany], June 11 (ANI): An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn determined with extremely high precision that gravity causes neutron stars and white dwarf stars to fall with equal accelerations.
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SOFIA finds hidden clues in Pluto's haze
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], May 14 (ANI): Observations made with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) -- a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope -- has helped explain how Pluto's haze is formed and how the distant Sun affects the dwarf planet fro
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Astronomers find Jupiter-like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 6 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered that the closest known brown dwarf, Luhman 16A, shows signs of cloud bands similar to those seen on Jupiter and Saturn.
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Global energy demand to plunge due to biggest shock since World War II
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], Apr 30 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades with the drop in demand this year set to dwarf the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and result in a record annual decline in carbon emissions of almost 8
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Bonsai, traditional Japanese dwarf tree art attracts visitors
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Edogawa [Japan], April 16 (ANI): This is a very unique museum in Tokyo's Edogawa district. It has hundreds of dwarf trees or known as bonsai, which is mastered by Japanese bonsai artists for 800 years.
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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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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detec
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Astronomers catch rare eclipse of double brown dwarf system
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): Astronomers working on "first light" data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Centre plans to preserve local cow breeds in Kerala
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Feb 25 (ANI): The Centre is planning to preserve local cow breeds of Vechur and Kasaragod Dwarf in Kerala having milk with high medicinal value and is planning to upgrade one breeding farm in the state into a centre of excellence.
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