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Icy comet orbiting a Sun-like star throws light on development of Solar SystemUsing data from the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, the researchers, detected very low levels of carbon monoxide gas around...
19 May, 2016, 05.02 PM IST
'Giant black hole 660 million times bigger than Sun'The mass of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a nearby giant elliptical galaxy is 660 million times greater than that of the Sun, ...
06 May, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
New images shows earliest stages of planet formationScientists have captured new images of a young star, located about 450 light-years away from Earth, which show the very earliest stages in ...
18 Mar, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
Mysterious infrared light from space detected by ALMAAstronomers have detected the faintest millimetre-wave source ever observed using ALMA, the world's largest ground-based facility for obser...
11 Mar, 2016, 01.32 PM IST
Planet formation around binary star examinedAstronomers have taken a new, detailed look at the very early stages of planet formation around a binary star about 450 light-years from Ea...
14 Feb, 2016, 01.41 PM IST
Black hole with mass of 140 million Suns foundA massive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has the mass of 140 million Suns, scientists have found.
24 Jun, 2015, 05.19 PM IST
Monstrous galaxy spotted near the edge of the universeA gravitational lens created by a massive foreground galaxy 3.4 billion light-years from the Earth acts as a natural telescope, magnifying ...
10 Jun, 2015, 08.25 PM IST
Monstrous galaxy spotted near the edge of the universeAstronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy that it is forming stars hundreds to thousands of times faster than the Mi...
10 Jun, 2015, 06.48 PM IST
Building blocks of life found in distant star systemAstronomers have detected presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young ...
12 Apr, 2015, 05.52 PM IST
Pluto-sized objects swarming around Sun-like starThe star HD 107146 is located approximately 90 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Coma Berenices. It is approxima...
12 Dec, 2014, 01.51 PM IST
Astronomers peek through supernova using radio telescopes in Australia and ChileThe supernova, was first seen in S Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at edge of a dwarf galaxy called Large Magellanic...
11 Nov, 2014, 06.23 PM IST