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Dr Meenaa Mahaajjan insists on giving the planet a new breath
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI/Digpu): The planet did not want any more exploitation. Given the abuse human beings has subjected the earth to, we might just have to leave it to conserve it! Is the planet ready to wipe out some population?
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2 Pak Army pilots killed in plane crash near Gujarat
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): At least two pilots were killed when Pakistan Army's Mushshak trainer aircraft crashed near Gujarat during a routine mission on Monday, said the army's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
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Sindh government urges Islamabad to be proactive in COVID-19 fight
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): Sindh province has reported at least 1,214 cases of the coronavirus and yet the Central government has not provided the province with cargo planes to import COVID-19 test kits, the provincial government officials have alleged.
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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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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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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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Japanese astronomers explain oddities of planet Uranus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 6 (ANI): The strange axis of rotation of planet Uranus and the unusual properties of its moons and ring system are likely due to an ancient giant icy impact, suggests a study conducted by researchers of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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Planes of various airlines parked at Delhi airport amid lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Planes of various airlines were seen parked at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after all international and domestic commercial flights remained suspended in the country amid lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis.
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The Pleiades embrace Venus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], Apr 1 (ANI): Every eight years, the brightest planet and the best-known open cluster come together -- sometimes they're a bit farther apart, sometimes they're closer together.
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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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#StayHomeStaySafe and Celebrate Earth Hour 2020 Digitally
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 27 (ANI/ PRNewswire): For over a decade, monuments, historical buildings and landmarks across the country have celebrated Earth Hour by switching off non-essential lights for an hour on the last Saturday of March. Earth Hour and Lights Out became the global symbol of a
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10.9 million names now aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Updated : 5 years, 11 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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