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Sounds from around the Milky Way
Updated : 4 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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X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of the evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may help answer some questions about the Sun and the solar system as the
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Discovery sheds new light on famed Einstein Ring
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 2 (ANI): Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii and old X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to unlock a mystery surrounding a bri
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Astronomers observe pair of jets blasting away from black hole at
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flare-up was captured in a new movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Universe's expansion may not be the same in all directions, sugges
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], April 8 (ANI): A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging the basic notion of cosmology that says everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances.
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