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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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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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'Super-Earth' can be orbiting our nearest neighboring star
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): Findings from a recent analysis of our closest neighboring star Proxima Century suggest that it may be orbited by a previously unknown planet.
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Cold Neptune and two Temperate Super-Earths found orbiting near stars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A "cold Neptune" and two possibly inhabitable worlds are part of a set of five newly found exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates, who have found themselves orbiting nearby Red Zwilling Stars identified by a team led by Carnegie's Fabo Feng and Paul Bu
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High school intern at NASA discovers new exoplanet orbiting two stars
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sattelite (TESS) mission is credited with the discovery of several planets that lie far outside our own solar system.
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 scientists for discoveries in cosmolog
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Oct 8 (ANI): The Nobel Prize in Physics was on Tuesday awarded with one half to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
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Chandrayaan-2 completes second de-orbiting maneuver successfully: ISRO
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 4 (ANI): The second de-orbiting maneuver for Chandrayan2 spacecraft was performed successfully in the wee hours of Wednesday, informed Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Chandrayaan-2 performs first de-orbiting maneuver: ISRO
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 3 (ANI): Chandrayaan-2 successfully performed its first de-orbiting maneuver on Tuesday bringing the mission one step closer to landing on the moon.
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New space discovery reveals how planets form
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 25 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a planet approximately 45 million years old, orbiting one of its brightest young stars. The star and its planet could provide valuable information on how planetary bodies form.
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NASA may soon identify 2,400 alien planets
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 19 (ANI): NASA's planet-finder has helped to identify 2,400 alien planets orbiting faraway stars in different solar systems.
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60 new 'hot Jupiter' candidates spotted
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 7 (ANI): A team of researchers has identified a cosmic barbecue, where 60 potential new "hot Jupiters" are glowing like coals on a grill while orbiting only 1% of Sun-like stars.
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