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Asteroid findings from specks of space dust could save the planet: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant findings that could contribute to potentially saving the planet if one ever hurtled toward Earth.
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Researchers details insights into darkest view ever of interstellar ice
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
An international team including Southwest Research Institute, Leiden University and NASA used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to achieve the darkest-ever view of a dense interstellar cloud. These observations have revealed the composition of a virtual treasure chest o
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Meteorite hunters find 17-pound space rock in Antarctica
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That's partly because Antarctica is a desert, and its dry climate limits the degree of weathering the meteorites experience
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Tumultuous migration on the edge of the hot Neptune desert: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Res
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Massive fuel-hungry black holes feed off intergalactic gas: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which reach them by travelling hundreds of thousands of light years from one galaxy to another.
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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid samples indicate that carbonates we
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Study sheds light on world in grains of interstellar dust
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study by Hokkaido University explains how dust grains form in interstellar gas and could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop valuable nanoparticles.
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Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation.
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Scientists explain how Butterfly Nebula got its wings
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel, becoming hot, dense white dwarf stars that are roughly the size of Earth. The material that was shed, enriched in carbon, forms dazzling patterns as it is blown gently into the interstell
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Researchers measure size-luminosity relation of galaxies less than a billi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
An international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has studied the relation between galaxy size and luminosity of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe taken by the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST
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Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute Research Scientist Dr. Danna Qasim posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.
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