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UP CM witnesses partial solar eclipse with telescopes, special glasses
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In addition to observing the celestial event with telescopes and special glasses, he took information from scientists about the eclipse's frequency, timing and planets.
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Researchers find new way to make telescope mirrors
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): A new way to use femtosecond laser pulses to fabricate the high-precision ultrathin mirrors required for high-performance x-ray telescopes has recently been developed by researchers.
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Developing telescope mirrors in new way could sharpen our view of universe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): Researchers have created a new method for fabricating the high-precision, ultrathin mirrors needed for high-performance x-ray telescopes using femtosecond laser pulses. The method might assist advance the capabilities of space-based x-ray telescopes that ar
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Research reveals how global warming affects astronomical observations
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): Astronomical observations from ground-based telescopes are sensitive to local atmospheric conditions. Anthropogenic climate change will negatively affect some of these conditions at observation sites around the globe.
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Study: Why Jupiter lacks ring system like Saturn
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 21 (ANI): Jupiter should have more impressive, larger rings than Saturn since it is larger. However, according to a recent study from UC Riverside, Jupiter's enormous moons block this vision from illuminating the night sky.
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Detected in early universe, the Massive black holes inside of dying galaxi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 28 (ANI): According to a database used by an international team of astronomers, a combination of observations from the best telescopes in the world, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from the active supermassive black holes of dying galaxies in the ear
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First Direct Observation of Exoplanet Beta Pictoris c
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US] October 2 (ANI): Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity.
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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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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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 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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'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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