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Holding up mirror to a dark matter discrepancy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): The universe's funhouse mirrors are revealing a difference between how dark matter behaves in theory and how it appears to act in reality.
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Hubble maps giant Halo around Andromeda galaxy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], Aug 28 (ANI): In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbour.
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Arecibo Observatory data help lead to discovery of cosmic 'Heartbeat'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Florida [USA], August 17 (ANI): An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a "gamma-ray heartbeat" coming from a cosmic gas cloud.
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Hubble helps uncover mystery of Betelgeuse's dimming
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], August 14 (ANI): New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight comin
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures summertime on Saturn
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [USA], July 24 (ANI): Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from the Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's
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NASA's telescope captures cosmic flapping 'Bat Shadow'
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 25 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star's unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region -- like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall.
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Stunning new Hubble images reveal stars gone haywire
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young planetary nebulae, NGC 6302, dubbed the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027. Both are among th
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Hubble marks 30 years in space with tapestry of blazing starbirth
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 24 (ANI): NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 30 years of unlocking the beauty and mystery of space by unveiling a stunning new portrait of a firestorm of star birth in a neighbouring galaxy.
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Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeup
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing a glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks, using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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Hubble finds the best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], Apr 1 (ANI): New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe.
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Paired with super telescopes, model Earth's guide hunt for life
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], Mar 27 (ANI): After conducting research, astronomers from Cornell University have created five models representing key points from Earth's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs.
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