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Delhi: People gather at Nehru Planetarium to witness Total Lunar Eclipse
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
People in large numbers have gathered at the Nehru Planetarium to witness the total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday, which commenced at 8.58 pm across India. Programming Manager of Nehru Planetarium, Prerna Chandra, said that the eclipse will last till 2:25 am.
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Most powerful solar flare occurred in 1.5 months recorded
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
A flare of M2 level was recorded on the Sun, which became the strongest in the last 1.5 months. This was announced on August 3 on the website of the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of the Institute of Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
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ISRO captures signatures of recent solar eruptive events from Earth, Sun-E
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
ISRO mobilised all its observation platforms and systems to record the signatures of the powerful solar storm that impacted Earth on Saturday. Both Aditya-L1 and Chandrayaan-2 have made observations and signatures have been analysed.
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Asteroid findings from specks of space dust could save the planet: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant findings that could contribute to potentially saving the planet if one ever hurtled toward Earth.
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Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a "deep dive" into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with the discovery of telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth.
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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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Earth-sun distance dramatically alters seasons in equatorial Pacific: Stud
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Weather and climate modelers understand pretty well how seasonal winds and ocean currents affect El Nino patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, impacting weather across the United States and sometimes worldwide.
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Meteorites that helped form earth may have formed in outer solar system, s
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 13 (ANI): A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology suggested that these asteroidal materials might have formed very far out in the early Solar System then been transported into the inner Solar System by ch
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Widest ever separation of brown dwarf pair discovered by scientists
Updated : 4 years ago IST
California [US], February 21 (ANI): A brown dwarf is an astronomical object that is an intermediate between a planet and a star. Brown dwarfs usually have a mass less than 0.075 that of the Sun or roughly 75 times that of Jupiter. A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwa
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NASA selects two missions to help better understand earth-sun environment
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 11 (ANI): NASA has selected two science missions - the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm - to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space environment, according to a statement o
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Superflare may end Earth one day
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 23 (ANI): Earth could continue to host life as long as the sun does not experience a massive burst of energy called a superflare, a recent study claims.
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