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Hubble findings may provide insights into formation of Universe
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 10 (ANI): Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satelli
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Reasons behind different colors of Uranus, Neptune: Research
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 2 (ANI): According to research at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), researchers have developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets. The model reveals that excess haze on Uranus builds up in the planet's st
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Electromagnetic 'tug-of-war' lights up Jupiter's upper atmosphere, says st
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Leicester [England], February 3 (ANI): The largest planet of the solar system, Jupiter, houses a lot of mysteries in it. New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NAS
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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Holding up mirror to a dark matter discrepancy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): The universe's funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality.
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Hubble maps giant Halo around Andromeda galaxy
Updated : 5 years, 6 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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Hubble helps uncover mystery of Betelgeuse's dimming
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], August 14 (ANI): New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight comin
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures summertime on Saturn
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [USA], July 24 (ANI): Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from the Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's
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Filling in 11 billion years of the universe's expansion history
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 20 (ANI): Filling in the most significant gaps in our understanding of the universe's history, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released Sunday a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever created.
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New view of oldest light adds a twist to debate over the Universe's Age
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], July 17 (ANI): From a mountain high in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation's Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh look at the oldest light in the universe.
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NASA's telescope captures cosmic flapping 'Bat Shadow'
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 25 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star's unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region -- like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall.
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Stunning new Hubble images reveal stars gone haywire
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young planetary nebulae, NGC 6302, dubbed the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027. Both are among th
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