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Research: Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously bel
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): Researchers developed a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth's largest crater Vredefort crater nearly two billion years ago. They found the impactor (most likely an asteroid) that formed the Vredefort crater is much larger than previou
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New clues regarding formation of solar system discovered
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born.
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Gigantic, red and full of spots
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. In the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany report that approximately eight per cent of red gia
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Scientists find new exoplanet-star pair having resemblance to Sun-Earth sy
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair, according to a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Ge
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Jupiter's moon Europa: New evidence of watery plumes
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], May 13 (ANI): A group of scientists, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have found new evidence of the presence of a plume of water near Jupiter's moon Europa.
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