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Scientists used data from more than 6,000 open clusters to map dusty veil
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Astronomers have mapped in details the invisible layers of cosmic dust that veils our Milky Way and reddens the light of the stars. This may help trace the locations where next generation of stars may be forming.
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Multi-Institutional team, including IIT Guwahati researchers, decodes flic
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, in collaboration with UR Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO, and Haifa University, Israel, have uncovered a mysterious X-ray signal pattern emitted from a blackhole called GRS 1915+105, located nearly 28,000 light-years from Earth.
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Astronomers observe largest ever sample of galaxies up to over 12 billion
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS Web.
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Israeli-led researchers discover Milky Way's heaviest black hole
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Situated approximately 1,500 light-years away from Earth, the black hole was revealed through data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
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When the stars align: University of Technology Sydney (UTS) partners with
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Sydney [Australia], March 13: The commercialisation of the Australian space sector is light years away from where it was just three years ago.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures a planet’s atmosphere being blasted away b
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The red dwarf star, called AU Microscopii, or AU Mic, is located outside of our solar system, 32 light-years from Earth, which is relatively close. It’s home to one of the youngest planetary systems ever observed, and the star is less than 100 million years old, as per CNN.
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Study detects most distant organic molecules using Webb telescope
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Astronomers discovered complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The study was published in 'Nature.'
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Massive fuel-hungry black holes feed off intergalactic gas: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which reach them by travelling hundreds of thousands of light years from one galaxy to another.
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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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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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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NASA missions probe game-changing cosmic explosion
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away. The event has rattled scientists' understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful ev
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