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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to
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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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Stellar pulsations distribute key ingredient for life
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Maryland [USA], August 5 (ANI): As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" -- but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space? NASA's telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, is finding some answers by watching pulsating stars as they expand and contract, almost
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Radio telescopes find extrasolar planet around main-sequence star
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including Gisela Ortiz-Leon from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn discovered a Saturn-like planet orbiting a small, cool star by detecting the "wobble" in the star's motion caused by the gravi
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Study suggests possibility of dozens of intelligent civilisations in our g
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Nottinghamshire [UK], June 15 (ANI): A new study has calculated that there could be more than 30 intelligent civilizations throughout the milky way galaxy.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Hot gas feeds formation of material in spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], Jan 14 (ANI): A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has recently gained insights about the origin of material present in the spiral arms of Milky Way Galaxy.
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Map of Milky Way Galaxy reveals presence of stellar nurseries wave
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 8 (ANI): Astronomers from Harvard University have found the presence of a wave-shaped gaseous structure named 'Radcliffe Wave' in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Scientists spot young stars in outskirts of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 8 (ANI): Scientists have spotted a flock of young stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way, which is the home to some of the oldest stars of the galaxy.
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Centre of Milky Way Galaxy saw candy-cane like structure: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Maryland [USA], Dec 22 (ANI): A research team witnessed the presence of a candy cane-like structure at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy days before Christmas festival. Images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed the presence.
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Study reveals candy cane structure in the center of Milky Way Galaxy
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Maryland (USA), Dec 19 (ANI): Days before Christmas festival, images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reveal the presence of a candy cane at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Telescope images of central region of Milky Way Galaxy reveal ancient star
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], Dec 17 (ANI): An observation of the Milky Way Galaxy done by European Southern Observatory (ESO) using Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found the evidence of a burst star formation which led to over hundred thousands of supernova explosions in the central part of the galaxy
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