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Cosmic ring of fire: Astronomers see super-rare type of galaxy
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 26 (ANI): A team of astronomers has captured an image of a rare type of galaxy, which is described as a "cosmic ring of fire" - as it existed 11 billion years ago.
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Astronomers spot twinkling heart of milky way using ALMA
Updated : 8 months, 1 week 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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Undergraduate student helps reveal how galaxies and black holes gr
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): Over the past two decades, astronomers have concluded that most, if not all, galaxies host massive black holes at their centres and the masses of a black hole and its host galaxy are correlated. But how are the two connected?
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Exoplanet climate 'Decoder' aids search for life
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental colour "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far aw
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Astronomers using Subaru Telescope determine that TRAPPIST-1 plane
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks 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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Astronomers decipher rhythm among young stars
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], May 14 (ANI): An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa detected a rhythm of life for a class of stellar objects that puzzled scientists until now, by listening to the beating hearts of stars.
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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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South African, US astronomers use MeerKAT to solve mystery of 'X-G
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks 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 find Jupiter-like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 6 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered that the closest known brown dwarf, Luhman 16A, shows signs of cloud bands similar to those seen on Jupiter and Saturn.
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 9 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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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
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Birth of 'Snowman' at edge of solar system
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Haifa [Israel], April 23 (ANI): New research by a team of astronomers shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, asteroid-like objects at the edge of the solar system, and for understanding the early stages of the solar system's formation.
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