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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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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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Researchers discover mystery gas near centre of Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], August 20 (ANI): An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way "like bullets".
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Peering under dust, study reveals radiation at galactic centre
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Wisconsin [USA], July 4 (ANI): Thanks to 20 years of homegrown galactic data, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Whitewater and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have finally figured out just how much energy permeates the centre of the Milky Way.
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Planets must be formed early
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ag
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Study suggests possibility of dozens of intelligent civilisations in our g
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Nottinghamshire [UK], June 15 (ANI): A new study has calculated that there could be more than 30 intelligent civilizations throughout the milky way galaxy.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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Astronomers spot twinkling heart of milky way using ALMA
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 23 (ANI): Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped.
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Oldest solid meteorite material found in Australia
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A meteorite that fell in Australia back in 1999 has the oldest solid meteorite material found on Earth till date, proved a recent study.
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