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Researchers explain how were galaxies much different in the early universe
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
The most sensitive telescope now searching for radio signals from cosmic dawn, an era around 200 million years after the Big Bang when stars ignited, has doubled its sensitivity, a new paper reports. While not yet detecting this radiation, the redshifted 21-centimeter line they have put new
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Asteroid findings from specks of space dust could save the planet: Researc
Updated : 2 months ago IST
New research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant findings that could contribute to potentially saving the planet if one ever hurtled toward Earth.
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Researchers details insights into darkest view ever of interstellar ice
Updated : 2 months ago IST
An international team including Southwest Research Institute, Leiden University and NASA used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to achieve the darkest-ever view of a dense interstellar cloud. These observations have revealed the composition of a virtual treasure chest o
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Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky W
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have released a huge survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects, arguably the largest such catalogue so far. The data for this unprecedented survey was taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Depa
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Solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old: Research
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid samples indicate that carbonates we
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Study sheds light on world in grains of interstellar dust
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
A recent study by Hokkaido University explains how dust grains form in interstellar gas and could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop valuable nanoparticles.
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Researchers measure size-luminosity relation of galaxies less than a billi
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
An international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has studied the relation between galaxy size and luminosity of some of the earliest galaxies in the universe taken by the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST
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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
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NASA's Webb uncovers star formation in cluster's dusty ribbons
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, it is less mysterious with new findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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Research details wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that the structures of galaxies in the early universe were much more diverse and mature than previously known. Scientists compared images of hundreds of galaxies taken by JWST for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CE
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Space solar power technology demo launched into orbit
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on January 3.
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