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Radio telescopes find extrasolar planet around main-sequence star
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Aug 4 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including Gisela Ortiz-Leon from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn discovered a Saturn-like planet orbiting a small, cool star by detecting the "wobble" in the star's motion caused by the gravi
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Surprisingly young galaxy breaks low-oxygen record
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hawaii [US], Aug 3 (ANI): Astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories, Subaru Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory- combined with the power of machine learning, have discovered a nearby galaxy that has broken the record for having the lowest level of oxygen ever seen.
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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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New view of oldest light adds a twist to debate over the Universe's Age
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], July 17 (ANI): From a mountain high in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation's Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh look at the oldest light in the universe.
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Comet of 21st century will be visible to the naked eye from July 14
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 12 (ANI): A new comet called C/2020 F3 NEOWISE which was discovered by NASA's Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope, will be clearly visible to the naked eye from July 14, giving new hope to skywatchers.
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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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New measurements bolster challenge to basic model of universe
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Mexico [USA], June 11 (ANI): A new set of precision distance measurements made with an international collection of radio telescopes have greatly increased the likelihood that theorists need to revise the 'standard model' that describes the fundamental nature of the universe.
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Astronomers using Subaru Telescope determine that TRAPPIST-1 planetary orb
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 14 (ANI): Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star.
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SOFIA finds hidden clues in Pluto's haze
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], May 14 (ANI): Observations made with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) -- a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope -- has helped explain how Pluto's haze is formed and how the distant Sun affects the dwarf planet fro
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South African, US astronomers use MeerKAT to solve mystery of 'X-Galaxies'
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 7 (ANI): A team of astronomers from South Africa and the US has used the MeerKAT telescope to solve a longstanding puzzle in 'X'-shaped radio galaxies.
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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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