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New Study finds star-forming cloud's magnetic field curiously twisted
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Illinois (Chicago) [US], June 15 (ANI): A new study conducted at North-western University in the US has found out that the star-forming cloud's magnetic field is curiously twisted. Researchers now believe that a newborn star has moved into another young star's stellar envelope to form a bina
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Physicists describe how certain sort of aurora on Mars forms
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Iowa City [US], May 22 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered how a sort of aurora on Mars forms, according to a recent study. The researchers discovered separate auroras formed by the interaction of the solar wind and the crust of Mars' southern hemisphere.
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Physicists explain how type of aurora on Mars is formed
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Iowa City [US], May 21 (ANI): According to a new study at the University of Iowa, researchers have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. The physicists reported discrete aurora form through the interaction of the solar wind and the crust in Mars' southern hemisphere.
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Study reveals that solar coronal loops may be optical illusions
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Boulder (Colorado) [US], March 6 (ANI): Coronal loops are the ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun's atmosphere. According to a new study, many coronal loops may actually be optical illusions. The study challenged prevailing assumptions of what is know
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Research shows how Mars lost its oceans
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], February 9 (ANI): It is a well-known fact that Mars once had oceans in part due to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth's. The layer of ice on the cap of the planet says it all. However, the magnetic field disappeared, and a new research may finally be able to explain
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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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Study reveals new explanation for Moon's half-century magnetic mystery
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Rhode Island [US], January 24 (ANI): Ever since rocks were brought back from the Moon to the Earth, during NASA's Apollo program from 1968 to 1972, an enduring mystery continued to baffle scientists: the Moon's magnetic field - one that rivalled Earth's in strength. Now, research led by a Br
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Scientists model Saturn's interior, explain planet's unique magnetic field
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an intriguing look into Saturn's interior, suggesting that a thick layer of helium rain influences the planet's magnetic field.
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Magnetised 'rivers' feed star birth
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Maryland [US], August 20 (ANI): Stars like our Sun form when clouds of gas and dust collapse under gravity. However, how does the material from interstellar space get into these clouds, and what controls their collapse makes up for a question.
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NASA Sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 1 (ANI): Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's biggest flares from the last solar cycle, out of a set of nine.
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NRAO release new image showing huge extent of spiral galaxy's magnetic fie
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Mexico [USA], July 22 (ANI): The galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-forming, spiral galaxy, similar to our own Milky Way, 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Gigantic, red and full of spots
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. In the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany report that approximately eight per cent of red gia
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