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OREO gets its most epic dunk ever - in the Milky Way
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], April 29: OREO, cherished worldwide for its special bond with milk as epitomized by the "OREO dunk", has reimagined this classic ritual. To introduce its limited-edition Space Dunk cookies in Southeast Asia, OREO took a cosmic leap, dunking not into a glass of milk bu
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Poet-diplomat Abhay K pens Sun Anthem ahead of launch of India’s first Sol
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The anthem goes as follows: "Home star, you’re never too far. Lighting up our lives wherever we are. On Moon or Mars, near or far, home star, you’re never too far. Keeping us all from drifting apart in the deep dark galactic bar. Igniting the skies each day in the Orion spur of the Milky Way
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Study reveals one-third of galaxy's most common planets could be in habita
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Researchers found, in the Milky Way, the yellow sun is comparatively uncommon. The vast majority of stars are far smaller, colder, and only have up to half the sun's mass. In our galaxy, countless planets orbit these familiar dwarf stars.
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Mysterious object being dragged into supermassive black hole at Milky Way'
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Scientists are interested in an item that is close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy because it has undergone a rapid and dramatic evolution. According to a recent study, the object known as X7 might be a cloud of gas and dust that resulted from the collisi
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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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New study finds oldest planetary debris in our galaxy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the oldest star in our galaxy that is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary systems discovered in the Milky Way.
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Astronomers discover closest black hole to earth
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away,
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Study creates map of Milky Way galaxy's ancient dead stars
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): The first map of the 'galactic underworld' a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars have revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky Way, and that almost a third of t
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Researchers reveals mysterious ripples in the Milky Way were caused by a p
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of milli
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Astronomers detect hot gas bubbles swirling around the Milky Way's superma
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a 'hot spot' orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The finding helps us better understand the enigmatic and dynamic environment
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Hubble findings may provide insights into formation of Universe
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 10 (ANI): Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satelli
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