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Astronomers detect biggest explosion after Big Bang
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Perth [Australia], Feb 28 (ANI): The biggest explosion in the universe after the Big Bang has been discovered by scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster.
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Astronomers spot far-away planet that could possibly support life
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Cambridge [England], Feb 27 (ANI): Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth which could be potentially habitable. This discovery might take us a step closer to search for life on planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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NASA scientists spot water in Jupiter's atmosphere
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): NASA astronomers have recently revealed that our neighbourhood gas-giant, Jupiter, contains water in its atmosphere, albeit in a fractional amount.
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How newborn stars prepare for birth of planets
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 20 (ANI): An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion clouds.
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objects
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 13 (ANI): Three astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with the Earth in the future. They did their research with the help of an artificial neural network.
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Love the stars? Astronomers have a unique suggestion for Valentine
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 11 (ANI): Few sights are more romantic than a star-filled sky, but there are fewer places on Earth where we can still enjoy a truly dark, star-filled sky. Light pollution means we risk losing one of the most romantic spectacles in nature, so this Valentine's Day as
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Astronomers discover unusual monster galaxy from early universe
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 6 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has found an unusual monster galaxy that existed about 12 billion years ago when the universe was only 1.8 billion years old.
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Astronomers discover rare double nucleus feature in a 'Cocoon Gala
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 6 (ANI): Astronomers have revealed in a new study that the so-called 'Cocoon Galaxy' has a unique double-nucleus structural feature and shape.
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Never-before-seen images of Sun's turbulent surface released
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Hawaii [US], Jan 30 (ANI): Astronomers on Wednesday (local time) released what they said were the most detailed images ever taken of the surface of our Sun.
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Scientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a 'vampire' star in the midst of a feeding frenzy, with the help of an automated program that is sifting through archived data from the decommissioned Kepler Space Telescope.
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Study suggests phosphorus molecules are formed in star-forming reg
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], Jan 15 (ANI): Astronomers after recent research have found that molecules with phosphorus are formed in the star-forming regions.
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Stars need a partner to create Universe's brightest explosions
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars.
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