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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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Chinese solar major Kehua Tech partners with Oakridge Energy
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 17 (ANI): Leading Chinese solar power company Kehua Tech on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with India's Oakridge Energy to provide high-efficient solar power solutions for residential and commercial sites.
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New Horizons space probe provides insights about planet formation
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons provided the science community with fresh new insights about the process of planet formation after it flew past a celestial body named Arrokoth, which is situated at the fringes of our solar system in the Kui
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Why Uranus and Neptune are different
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 5 (ANI): According to Researchers at the University of Zurich, the two outermost giant planets of the solar system, Uranus and Neptune, have similar masses but are strikingly different.
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Solar orbiter mission to study Sun to be launched on Feb 7
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Michigan [USA], Jan 31 (ANI): A solar orbiter mission by the researchers of the University of Michigan will be launched on February 7 for studying the physics of the Sun and will also be the first to capture the images of Sun's poles.
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ESA to launch Solar Orbiter to face the Sun
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): The European Space Agency's (ESA's) new Sun explorer will be launched from Cape Canaveral on 6 February.
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Oldest solid meteorite material found in Australia
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A meteorite that fell in Australia back in 1999 has the oldest solid meteorite material found on Earth till date, proved a recent study.
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Stars need a partner to create Universe's brightest explosions
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars.
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Tata Power Solar bags Rs 1,505 crore project from NTPC under CPSU scheme
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 13 (ANI): Tata Power Solar Systems Ltd has received a letter of award from NTPC for a 250 megawatt solar project under the central public sector undertakings (CPSU) scheme.
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High school intern at NASA discovers new exoplanet orbiting two stars
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sattelite (TESS) mission is credited with the discovery of several planets that lie far outside our own solar system.
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NASA discovers Earth-sized planet with habitable conditions within 100 lig
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have found the first earth-sized planet with habitable potential- where liquid water exists. The additional good news is that the planet is comparatively closer to our solar system.
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Telescope images of central region of Milky Way Galaxy reveal ancient star
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], Dec 17 (ANI): An observation of the Milky Way Galaxy done by European Southern Observatory (ESO) using Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found the evidence of a burst star formation which led to over hundred thousands of supernova explosions in the central part of the galaxy
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