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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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Far away planet where it rains iron spotted by scientists
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Santiago [Chile], Mar 12 (ANI): An exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 degree Celsius, which is sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights with strong winds then cool down the iron vapour so that it conde
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Record- breaking explosion by black hole spotted
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away.
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Study reveals some gnome galaxies host massive blackholes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): A new hint towards finding out the early history of galaxy formation comes up as the astronomers discover 13 new black holes in some dwarf galaxies which are not more than a billion light-years away from our planet.
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NASA discovers Earth-sized planet with habitable conditions within 100 lig
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have found the first earth-sized planet with habitable potential- where liquid water exists. The additional good news is that the planet is comparatively closer to our solar system.
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NASA discovers potentially habitable planet 31 light-years away
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Aug 2 (ANI): In what could be one of the biggest developments in the search for habitable planets, NASA has discovered a "Super-Earth" estimated to be about six times the size of our planet and located a mere 31 light-years away.
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Scientists release first-ever picture of a black hole
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Apr 10 (ANI): Scientists released the much-awaited first direct image of a massive black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a galaxy which is about 54 million light-years away, at the National Press Club here on Wednesday.
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A cold, close brown dwarf discovered near sun
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A brown dwarf, which is a little more than 100 light years away from the sun, has been discovered by the astronomers with the help of a new citizen-science tool that was released earlier this year to pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our
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Two largest satellite galaxies Magellanic Clouds bridged by stars
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 8 (ANI): According to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from University Of Cambridge, the Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years.
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1.2 million galaxies mapped in quest for dark energy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has put more than a million galaxies up to 6 billion light years away on the largest ever 3D map of the universe in an attempt to precisely measure Dark Energy.
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