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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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NASAatHome: Space agency brings the universe at your home
Updated : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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 : 5 years, 11 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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10.9 million names now aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that.
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Paired with super telescopes, model Earth's guide hunt for life
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): After conducting research, astronomers from Cornell University have created five models representing key points from Earth's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs.
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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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Image captured by Hubble Space Telescope can reveal the origin of massive
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 18: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a scene of stellar creation that sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula.
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NASA Mars rover on schedule despite COVID-19 pandemic
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 15 (ANI): NASA has decided to persevere through the COVID-19 pandemic for launching its newest Mars rover that was recently christened as Perseverance.
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Space instruments to track air pollution on hourly basis
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and South Korea have joined their hands to set up a 'virtual constellation' of space instruments that will track global air quality each hour.
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