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'Elegant' solution reveals how universe got its structure
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 28 (ANI): The universe is full of billions of galaxies -- but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today, and how did it all form and grow?
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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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Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): Researchers, led by Western University's Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i's Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light,
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Discovery of young blazar produced by merger of two galaxies
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 14 (ANI): A blazar is a particular type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a central supermassive black hole which emits a jet, a flux of highly energetic particles and radiation moving almost at the velocity of light, and which is aligned along the observe
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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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Star formation project maps nearby Interstellar clouds
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 24 (ANI): Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation.
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Image captured by Hubble Space Telescope can reveal the origin of massive
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 18: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a scene of stellar creation that sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula.
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Astronomers catch rare eclipse of double brown dwarf system
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): Astronomers working on "first light" data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. The result was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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How newborn stars prepare for birth of planets
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion clouds.
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