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NASA's planet hunter TESS completes primary mission
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
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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Akatsuki reveals giant cloud disruption on Venus unnoticed for 35 years
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
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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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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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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Augmented reality brings elephants, tigers, entire solar system in online
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Malappuram (Kerala) [India], July 13 (ANI): A giant elephant or a life-like cow that appears all of a suddenly inside a kindergarten classroom in Kerala's Malappuram district has added a whole new dimension to learning for children.
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This hopping robot could explore the solar system's icy moons
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], June 25 (ANI): SPARROW, a steam-powered robotic concept, could one day take giant leaps over some of the most hazardous terrains known (and unknown) in the solar system.
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Western Space team theorises rare exomoon discovery
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Ontario/London [Canada/ UK], June 24 (ANI): Western astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. Until then, however, the mere possibility of the find sparks e
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Planets must be formed early
Updated : 5 years, 8 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, 8 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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X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of the evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may help answer some questions about the Sun and the solar system as the
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