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Astronomers capture first ever image of a black hole
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 11 (ANI): In major breakthrough, researchers have unveiled the first-ever direct visual evidence of black hole and its shadow.
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Milky Way galaxy is due for huge collision in 2 billion years: Stu
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 13 (ANI): Astronomers have long estimated that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way galaxy around 8 billion years from now.
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Aliens exist but may be in parallel Universe: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], May 16 (ANI): Radio astronomers from around the world have been glued to their sets for decades to listen to that one sound from somewhere in space which would prove that an alien life, sufficiently advanced, exists somewhere in our universe.
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Astronomers reveal secrets of most distant supernova ever detected
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): An international team of astronomers led by the UK-based University of Southampton has confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected - a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago, or three-quarters the age of the U
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Stars among the oldest in our galaxy discovered
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 21 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way.
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Clumps of new stars 'spotted' in a galaxy far, far away
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jul 7 (ANI): A team of astronomers has pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beyond its limits to spot the clumps of new stars in a distant galaxy.
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A cold, close brown dwarf discovered near sun
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A brown dwarf, which is a little more than 100 light years away from the sun, has been discovered by the astronomers with the help of a new citizen-science tool that was released earlier this year to pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our
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Second 'Great Spot' discovered on Jupiter
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 12 (ANI): A second Great Spot has been discovered on Jupiter by University of Leicester astronomers, rivalling the scale of the planet's famous Great Red Spot and created by the powerful energies exerted by the great planet's polar aurorae.
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Two largest satellite galaxies Magellanic Clouds bridged by stars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 8 (ANI): According to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from University Of Cambridge, the Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years.
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Astronomers release largest digital survey of visible Universe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Belfast[UK], Dec. 20(ANI): The world's largest digital survey of the visible universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released.
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In a first, oxygen accurately measured in galaxy far, far away
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug 4 (ANI): A team of astronomers has made the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy.
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Our galaxy's 'halo' spinning in same way as its dis
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 26 (ANI): Milky Way's halo is spinning and that too just like its disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas and dust, according to a team of astronomers.
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