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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson to make spaceflight on July 11
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], July 2 (ANI/Sputnik): UK billionaire and founder of the Virgin Galactic company Richard Branson says he will make a spaceflight on July 11, earlier than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, Trump knows about i
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 9 (ANI): Amid debates about the existence of aliens, a former Israeli space security chief has said there is an existence of "Galactic Federation" and Israel and the US have been dealing with aliens for years.
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Simon Kinberg to write, produce 'Battlestar Galactica' movie
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 23 (ANI): After helming 'X-Men' franchise, Simon Kinberg is all set to write and produce Universal's feature adaptation of the sci-fi franchise 'Battlestar Galactica'. Kinberg joins producer Dylan Clark, who has long overseen development on a 'BSG' movie for the stud
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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Hubble maps giant Halo around Andromeda galaxy
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], Aug 28 (ANI): In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbour.
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Galactic bar paradox resolved in Cosmic Dance
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 26 (ANI): New light has been shed on a mysterious and long-standing conundrum at the very heart of our galaxy.
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Arecibo Observatory data help lead to discovery of cosmic 'Heartbeat'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Florida [USA], August 17 (ANI): An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a "gamma-ray heartbeat" coming from a cosmic gas cloud.
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Peering under dust, study reveals radiation at galactic centre
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Wisconsin [USA], July 4 (ANI): Thanks to 20 years of homegrown galactic data, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Whitewater and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have finally figured out just how much energy permeates the centre of the Milky Way.
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From lab to space: Discovery of new organic molecule in interstellar molec
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations conducted by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (
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Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, after a 26-year slumber. This is the second-closest such object known to date, with a brightness greater than a million Suns.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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