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'Nashville' actor Timmy Brown passes away at 82
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 11 (ANI): Timmy Brown, a professional American football player who went on to act in 'Nashville' and in the film and television versions of 'M*A*S*H', has died at the age of 82.
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NASA wants you to play this game to help map world's coral reefs
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington, D.C [USA], April 10 (ANI): When at home, help NASA map coral reefs around the world. The US-based space agency is inviting video gamers and citizen scientists on virtual ocean research expeditions to understand the depleting ecosystems.
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New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout S
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): Newly released images of the Sun have revealed that its outer layer is filled with previously unseen, incredibly fine magnetic threads filled with extremely hot, million-degree plasma. The high-resolution observations have been analysed by researchers a
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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Universe's expansion may not be the same in all directions, suggests Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], April 8 (ANI): A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging the basic notion of cosmology that says everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances.
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NASA: Data from Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mystery
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 7 (ANI): The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of
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Hit by price cut during lockdown, grape farmers in Nashik make raisins
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], April 5 (ANI): Grape farmers in villages of Nashik region are facing problem of the price of crop dropping due to coronavirus crisis which led to the government declare a lockdown.
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Hit hard by lockdown, sex workers in Nashik seek govt's help to make ends
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], April 5 (ANI): While the nationwide lockdown has caused a disruption in the day to day life of almost every individual in the country, the situations of sex workers residing in Nashik's Bhadrakali are no different.
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IAF aircraft to soon transport medical equipment, other supplies to Maldiv
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): An Indian Air Force (IAF) C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft, carrying medical equipment and other supplies, will soon leave for the Maldives.
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NASAatHome: Space agency brings the universe at your home
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], April 1 (ANI): NASA has announced a new social media special, NASA at Home or #NASAatHome which will show the latest updates from the agency's space explorations, along with other content to keep you engaged with the universe.
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Hubble finds the best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], Apr 1 (ANI): New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe.
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NASA: SunRISE Mission to study causes of giant solar particle storms
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space. The information not only improves understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimat
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