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ITU marks 160 years of connecting world
Updated : 10 months ago IST
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) marked its 160th anniversary on World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, celebrating decades of connecting the world through innovation, cooperation, and standard-setting. ITU also emphasised bridging the digital gender gap to ensur
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Astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars: Stud
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars.
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Scientists found four tiny planets orbiting one of our nearest stars
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.
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ISRO's SSLV-D2 rocket successfully places 3 satellites into their orbits
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
ISRO launched the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle - SSLV-D2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Friday. The launch has put ISRO's earth observation satellite EOS-07 and two co-passenger satellites Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 into a 450 km circular orbit around the Earth.
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Tumultuous migration on the edge of the hot Neptune desert: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Res
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Ultrathin solar cells promise improved satellite performance: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In Journal of Applied Physics, by AIP Publishing, scientists from the University of Cambridge proposed a radiation-tolerant photovoltaic cell design that features an ultrathin layer of light-absorbing material.
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Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an el
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Astronomers discover 'cataclysmic' star pair with shortest orbit yet
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a stellar binary, or pair of stars, with an extremely short orbit, appearing to circle each other every 51 minutes. The system seems to be one of a rare class of binaries known as a "cataclysmic variable," in
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Much-awaited thriller of 2021 'The Last Resort' to be released soon
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI/ PNN): No room for leisure in The Last Resort; only brave souls can stay there. The hair-raising thriller revolves around the time loop plot and time travel themes. The Sci-Fi is written by Ajit Jagtap, Bollywood's promising new voice in Thriller and Sci-fi
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Researchers decode dynamics of electron
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): A new method for identifying quantum orbits that enables photoelectron spectroscopy via tunneling ionization to provide attosecond temporal and sub angstrom spatial resolution measurement of electron dynamics was recently found by researchers.
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Study decodes electron dynamics
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers found a new method for identifying quantum orbits that enables photoelectron spectroscopy via tunneling ionization to provide attosecond temporal and sub angstrom spatial resolution measurement of electron dynamics.
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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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