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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Delhi HC grants interim bail to solar panel firm director accused of misap
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): Delhi High Court has granted interim bail of eight weeks to the director of a private company dealing with solar panels accused of misappropriating government funds which were to be incurred for the production of solar energy.
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Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus' super-rotation
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 25 (ANI): Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.
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Solar light appears to have 'powerful effect' on killing coronavirus, says
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], April 24 (ANI): The solar light appears to have a "powerful effect" on killing the deadly coronavirus, which has infected over 2 million people worldwide, according to a senior US official.
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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Birth of 'Snowman' at edge of solar system
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Haifa [Israel], April 23 (ANI): New research by a team of astronomers shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, asteroid-like objects at the edge of the solar system, and for understanding the early stages of the solar system's formation.
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Approach developed by physicists to increase performance of solar energy
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 21 (ANI): Physicists have developed an approach to circumvent a major loss process that currently limits the efficiency of commercial solar cells.
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Astronomers find a planet that never was
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tucson [Arizona], April 21 (ANI): Astronomers have found out that what was thought to be a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direct imaging likely never existed.
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Triton Solar's first EV SUV 'Triton H' launched with a capability of 700 p
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI/ BusinessWire India): Triton Solar, a New Jersey-based technology company is launching its first EV SUV - Triton Model H, an electric SUV today across the globe.
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MNRE steps up efforts to attract investment from firms shifting base from
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 18 (ANI): Amid growing sentiment among companies to shift their manufacturing base from China in the wake of coronavirus epidemic, India is preparing to introduce policy changes to facilitate manufacturing in the country and attract investment.
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New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of the solar w
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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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