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Gujarat will see solar eclipse with 72 pc visibility, says Scientist
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], June 21 (ANI): Gujarat will witness the solar eclipse with only 72 percent visibility on Sunday. Unlike other years, people would not be able to view the annular solar eclipse from an observatory or a planetarium amid the COVID-19 induced guidelines.
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Yoga goes beyond race, colour, gender and faith: PM Modi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI): On the occasion of International Yoga Day on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Yoga enhances our quest for a healthier planet and goes beyond race, colour, gender, faith and descent.
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People can view annular solar eclipse from home on Sunday: Experts
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): Unlike before, people would not be able to view the annular solar eclipse on Sunday from an observatory or a planetarium as large gatherings are prohibited in the wake of COVID-19. However, Nandivada Rathnasree, director at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Libr
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Jaipur to witness 2020's first partial solar eclipse
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 20 (ANI): Jaipur will witness a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, starting from 10:15 am till 1:44 pm, however, this time there will be no arrangement to show the eclipse in BM Birla Planetarium campus here due to COVID-19 crisis, said Sandip Bhattacharya, Ass
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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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'Solar eclipse on June 21 will be annular eclipse'
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 20 (ANI): The Deputy Director of Pathani Samanta Planetarium, Bhubaneswar, S Pattnaik on Friday said that the solar eclipse on June 21 will be an annular eclipse.
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Stunning new Hubble images reveal stars gone haywire
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young planetary nebulae, NGC 6302, dubbed the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027. Both are among th
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Planets must be formed early
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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Evidence support early formation of planets around newborn stars
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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Evidence for volcanic craters on Saturn's moon Titan
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and
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It's time for India to take bold decisions and become self-reliant: PM Nar
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged Indian industry leaders to set up globally-competitive domestic supply chains and turn the coronavirus crisis into an opportunity to become a self-reliant nation.
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Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 10 (ANI): A team of scientists has expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including a critical climate component -- the presence of airborne dust.
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