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How protoplanetary rings form around young stars
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 16 (ANI): Four-hundred fifty light-years from Earth, a young star is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust, and it is producing planets, one for each gap in the ring.
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Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): A rare molecule -- phosphine -- has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, an international team of astronomers announced today leading to speculation of life on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
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50 new planets confirmed in machine-learning first
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 26 (ANI): Fifty potential planets have had their existence confirmed by a new machine learning algorithm developed by the University of Warwick scientists.
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Astronomers discover 100 'cool worlds' near Sun
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hawaii [US], August 18 (ANI): Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool worlds near the Sun -- objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs.
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Surprising number of exoplanets could host life, study reveals
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], August 1 (ANI): Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. According to a new study, other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter.
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Astronomers research on radioactive aluminum in solar systems unlocks form
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Texas [USA], July 28 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has proposed a new method for the formation of aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope of the chemical element aluminum, in star systems that are forming planets.
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'Lost' world rediscovery is step toward finding habitable planets
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable 'Goldilocks zone' in a distant solar system.
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Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets?
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 20 (ANI): Many exoplanets known today are 'super-Earths,' with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and 'mini-Neptunes,' with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, was long thought to be gas planets, made up of hydrogen and helium.
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Five planets can be seen with naked eyes in the coming week, says scientis
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): In the coming week, a unique phenomenon will take place when five planets can be seen with the naked eyes from several parts of the earth, a city-based scientist said on Sunday.
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Five planets can be seen with naked eyes before sunrise on Sunday
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): A unique opportunity will be available to all just before the sunrise on July 19, it is the chance to see as many as five planets, along with the crescent moon, with the naked eye, according to astronomer RC Kapoor.
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Artificial Intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 14 (ANI): Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities -- all the configurations that would lead to collisions -- would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
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InSight flexes its arm while its 'Mole' hits pause
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 8 (ANI): NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the "mole" burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet's deep interior to reveal details about the formation of Mars and, ultimately, all ro
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