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Who Sent the Space Signal? The Magnetar Mystery ExplainedA powerful, fleeting flash of energy, a fast radio burst, was detected originating from within our Milky Way galaxy in April 2020. This eve...- Why has the blood-red night sky over Ladakh's Hanle village left the internet stunned? ExplainedRed auroras Hanle Ladak: Auroral activity was recorded by the all-sky camera at the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, Ladakh, on th...
- How do solar storms impact Earth’s magnetic field? ISRO’s Aditya-L1 decodesISRO's Aditya-L1 solar mission has revealed new details about solar storms. A recent study analyzed a major space weather event from Octobe...
- What lies between the stars? Astronomers map a mysterious ‘interstellar tunnel’ of plasma stretching from our solar system to distant starsAstronomers have found an interstellar tunnel using the eRosita X-ray telescope. This tunnel is a channel of hot, low-density plasma. It st...
- Astronomers unveil 34 new giant radio sources discovered using GMRTA team led by Indian radio astronomers reported discovering 34 new giant radio sources. The findings, made through the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey...
- Aditya-L1, ISRO'S first solar spacecraft enters Sun's final orbitIndian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved a major milestone as they successfully completed the last manoeuvre to position the ...
- Aditya-L1's SUIT captures first full-disk images of the Sun in near ultraviolet wavelengths: IsroThe SUIT payload was powered on, on November 20. Following a successful pre-commissioning phase, the telescope captured its first light sci...
- ISRO sets date for maiden sun voyage Aditya-L1 for Sept 2The spacecraft that will be designed for the solar mission will help to receive remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observa...
- ISRO sets Sept 2 as tentative date for launch of Aditya-L1 solar missionISRO is preparing to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft on September 2. The Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at studying the Sun from an orbit around ...
- Oversimplification & its complicationsTake the headline that appeared all across media earlier this month about a 'piece of the Sun breaking off'. Some bhakts of oversimplificat...
- Mumbai-based scientist Ravindra Kumar is creating stars' temperatures on his tabletopRavindra Kumar assembled the equipment, at a cost of around Rs 15 cr, to study matter at extreme conditions.
- NASA's first mission to Sun renamed Parker Solar ProbeWashington, May 31 (IANS) NASA on Wednesday announced that it has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft - humanity's first mission to a s...
- LIGO's detection of gravitational waves: Listening to the heavens became a reality (2016 in retrospect)Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) In 2016, science fiction and reality collided when LIGO opened up our sixth sense to understand the universe and set...
- Astronomers spot giant 'cannonballs' shooting from starWashington, Oct 7 (IANS) Using NASA's Hubble space telescope data, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have detected superhot blobs...
- Government approves building of gravitational wave observatory for Rs 1,200 croreIts approval was expected after the tweet last week by Prime Minister Modi about building an advanced gravitation wave detector in the coun...
- Sun can produce 'superflares' that may disrupt life on EarthSuperflares are thousands of times more powerful than those ever recorded on the Sun, and are frequently observed on some stars.
- Scientists find evidence of plasma tubes floating above for the first timeResearchers using a radio telescope to see in 3D detected the existence of tubular plasma structures in the inner layers of the magnetosphe...
- Sun's heliosphere dominated by two solar jets: NASAThe solar wind, in turn, creates a bubble called the heliosphere that extends far beyond the planets of the solar system.
- Why Sun's corona is hotter than its surface decodedScientists have finally decoded why the Sun's million-degree corona or outermost atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, which has b...
- Safe and clean energy: How seawater can power the worldDebate about America’s energy supply is heating up: Gas prices are rising, ethanol is under attack and nuclear power continues to struggle ...
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