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What is the concept behind northern lights?Northern lights also known as aurora borealis are caused due to activity on the sun surface. These beautiful lights are seen in the norther...15 Dec, 2022, 10.13 PM IST- Orionid meteor shower to illuminate night sky. When and how to viewSkywatchers anticipate spectacular pyrotechnics when Earth travels through the debris left by Halley's Comet.21 Oct, 2022, 08.21 PM IST
- Queen star Brian May's song 'Another World' was originally for 'Sliding Doors' film. Know the detailsThe 75-year-old Queen star, Brian May, recently said that his song 'Another World' was originally for the 1998 romantic-comedy movie 'Slidi...27 Aug, 2022, 05.05 PM IST
- NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and c...29 May, 2021, 07.03 PM IST
- Novel technique for tracking eruptions from sun to be used in India's first solar missionA software named Computer Aided CME Tracking Software based on a computer vision algorithm was so far used to detect and characterise such ...01 Apr, 2021, 06.08 PM IST
- Indian telescope discovers most distant radio galaxy everThe galaxy is perceived as it looked when the universe was only a billion years old, according to the study appearing in the journal Monthl...09 Aug, 2018, 01.07 PM IST
- Google honours astrophysicist Chandrasekhar with doodleMumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Google on Thursday dedicated a special Doodle to mark the 107th birth anniversary of India-born US scientist Subrahma...19 Oct, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
- Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couplesWashington, Oct 4 (IANS) Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing...04 Oct, 2017, 11.52 AM IST
- LIGO India cheers Physics Nobel for gravitational waves discoveryKolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) The Nobel Prize in Physics going to the LIGO architects for their contribution to detecting gravitational waves serve...03 Oct, 2017, 08.42 PM IST
- Physics Nobel goes to astounding discovery of gravitational wavesStockholm, Oct 3 (IANS) Three American scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have won the Nobel Pr...03 Oct, 2017, 06.07 PM IST
- Life enabling chemical found around infant starsLondon, June 9 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a life enabling organic compound -- methyl isocyanate -- around an infant star system some ...09 Jun, 2017, 02.09 PM IST
- Subsurface ocean lies deep with Saturn's moon DioneLondon, Oct 6 (IANS) Saturn moons Titan and Enceladus are already known to hide oceans beneath their icy crusts, but a new study suggests a...06 Oct, 2016, 11.20 AM IST
- Cosmic voids may contain 20% of universe's 'normal' matterResearchers from the University of Innsbruck in Austria suggest that galaxies make up only 1/500th of the volume of the universe.28 Feb, 2016, 01.25 PM IST
- Space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to stars in autumn this yearMessages from around the world will be beamed into space at the speed of light as part of a cultural project to create a celestial time cap...09 Feb, 2016, 07.18 PM IST
- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array satellite observatory discovers five 'supermassive' black holesHigh-energy x-rays found for five of the black holes confirmed that they had been hidden by dust and gas.06 Jul, 2015, 01.12 PM IST
- Daylight saving: Drawing the lineFollowing a permanent GMT+1 clock would give people more time to relax and shop after work in the winter in the south.27 Jan, 2011, 06.59 AM IST
- Visiting Greenwich: A rendevous with memories of another timeNothing can be more wonderful than actually seeing something which you had read about as a child and had never dreamt of being able to actu...23 Jul, 2009, 05.40 AM IST
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