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Astronomers discover 100 'cool worlds' near Sun
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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Sun may have started life with binary companion
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Massachusetts [USA], August 18 (ANI): A new theory published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass.
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PM to deliver inaugural address at First World Solar Technology Summit on
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New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the First World Solar Technology Summit virtually on September 8.
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NASA's planet hunter TESS completes primary mission
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Maryland [US], August 12 (ANI): NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), on July 4, finished its primary mission imaging about 75 per cent of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our s
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Don't shift Covid-19 patients from Sirmaur, Solan to DDU, Shimla: HC to HP
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Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Aug 12 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed not to shift COVID-19 patients from Sirmaur and Solan to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) Hospital in Shimla unless the hospitals in the districts run out of the capacity to attend the COVID-19 patients.
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Emmvee, a trusted solar energy partner since 1992
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Aug 11 (ANI/PRNewswire): Emmvee, since its inception in 1992, has been a pioneer in manufacturing and developing innovative Solar Photovoltaic Modules and Solar Water Heating Systems.
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Kerala CM announces Rs 10 lakh solatium for plane crash victims, free trea
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Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakhs to the next of kin of each passenger who died when an Air India Express flight veered off the runway while attempting to land at the Karipur International Airp
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NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in Sun's atmosphere
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Washington [US], Aug 8 (ANI): Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists are not sure just how much there actually is in the Sun's atmosphere, where it is hard to measure.
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Akatsuki reveals giant cloud disruption on Venus unnoticed for 35 years
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Tokyo [Japan], August 6 (ANI): In the cloudy heavens of Venus, an enormous atmospheric disruption, not yet seen elsewhere in the solar system, has been rapidly propagating at around 50 kilometers above the hidden surface, keeping unnoticed for at least 35 years.
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The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought
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Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): Solar activity varies in 11-year cycles. As the activity cycle switches to a new one, the Sun is usually very calm for several years.
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NASA Sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
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Washington D.C. [USA], August 1 (ANI): Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's biggest flares from the last solar cycle, out of a set of nine.
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Surprising number of exoplanets could host life, study reveals
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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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