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Professor Somak Raychaudhury appointed Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka UniversityPramath Raj Sinha, Chairman, Board of Trustees, said “Professor Raychaudhury brings stellar academic stature and strong administrative expe...- Meet the Indian astrophysicists who discovered the Saraswati SuperclusterAmong the major challenges in working in this field in India is the lack of large-scale experimental facilities for scientists.
- Astrosat, Chandra and Hubble jointly detect massive cosmic explosionMumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...
- Newly found super-Earth may be best bet to hunt for alien lifeThe orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light...
- Scientists discover super-Earth that could harbour lifeLondon, April 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a si...
- Massive black hole spotted binging on star for a decadeAs it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.
- Milky Way core blazed furiously 6 million years agoThe centre of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small si...
- Diamond worlds may have hosted universe's first lifeThe primordial universe consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium, and lacked chemical elements like carbon and oxygen necessary for life as ...
- New planet with triple-star system foundThe main star is also brighter than the other stars that serve as suns for their planets, making it easier to study both the star and the p...
- Magnetic field was critical for life on EarthThe study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti shows that a magnetic field plays a key role in making a planet conducive to life.
- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory finds giant burping black hole 26 million light years awayResearchers said that this is one of the nearest super massive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing such violent outbursts.
- NASA probe spots dead star 'killing' a planetThis discovery validates a long-held theory that white dwarfs are capable of cannibalising possible remnant planets that have survived with...
- Astronomers find 11 runaway galaxiesAstronomer Igor Chilingarian said the galaxies were "facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,".
- One of the most distant planets discoveredA remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
- 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 ...
- NASA's Kepler telescope finds eight new planetsEight new worlds beyond our solar system, including two of the most Earth-like planets discovered so far, boost the number of Kepler's conf...
- Recipe for Earth-like planets foundThe "test kitchen" of Earth has given us a detailed recipe, but it was not clear whether other planetary systems would follow the same form...
- First observation of super-Earth using ground telescopeA ground-based telescope has observed a super-Earth planet passing in front of a Sun-like star. The planet is about twice the size of Earth.
- 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...
- Astronomers discoveres Exoplanet with longest known yearKepler-421b orbits an orange, type K star that is cooler & dimmer than Sun. It circles the star at a distance of about 177 mn kms.
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