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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
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Scientists study life origins by simulating cosmic evolution
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. After all, amino acids may have helped spa
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NASA's Webb uncovers star formation in cluster's dusty ribbons
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, it is less mysterious with new findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likel
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SOLAR-MAIT's launch of 25-year warranty on rooftop solar sets new standard
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI/SRV): SOLAR-MAIT, a solar start-up in India, has recently announced the launch of a 25-year warranty on its rooftop solar systems on 9th Jan 2023, making it the first company in the country to offer such a long warranty and sets a new standard in the roofto
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NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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Research details wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CE
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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Space solar power technology demo launched into orbit
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on January 3.
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Hubble finds ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze of light. These stars are not gravitationally tied to any one galaxy in a cluster.
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World's largest turbulence simulation unmasks the flow of energy in astrop
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the Sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.
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