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Spectacular Saturn Lunar Eclipse To Grace Indian Skies
Visible in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, and Japan, this celestial occurrence can be observed with the naked eye, offering a unique opportunity to witness a remarkable alignment in our solar system.
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Watch: "Mysterious Flying Spiral" Spotted In Night Sky Over Hawaii. Here's What It Is
A Japanese telescope camera has captured a bizarre blue "flying spiral" in Hawaii. The video showed the "mysterious" whirlpool of light in the shape of a spiral galaxy briefly appearing in the night sky above Maunakea on January 18.
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Rare X-Ray Emitting Cosmic Object Found in Milky Way Galaxy
In the latest and fascinating find, astronomers have detected a rare kind of cosmic object in the Milky Way galaxy. The object named MAXI J1816-195 is found to be emanating X-ray light that was first detected on June 7. The discovery was brought to light by astrophysicist Hitoshi Negoro of Nihon University, Japan, and his team.
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Japan Space Scientists Hunting for New Asteroid Name
The name has to be no more than 16 alphabetic letters long, and must not be commercial.
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Monstrous Galaxy Spotted Near The Edge of the Universe
Astronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy near the edge of the universe and found that it is forming stars hundreds to thousands of times faster than the Milky Way.
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Universe's Earliest Stars Were Monstrous: Study
Little is known about the universe's earliest stars but if we believe astronomers, they might have been hundreds of times more massive than the sun.
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Astronomers spot first possible 'exomoon'
The astronomers used a technique called gravitational microlensing, in which one star passes in front of another as seen from Earth.
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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster
Japanese astronomers claimed to have found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, the team peered back through time to a point just one billion years after the Big Bang, the birth of the universe.
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Spectacular Saturn Lunar Eclipse To Grace Indian Skies
Visible in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, and Japan, this celestial occurrence can be observed with the naked eye, offering a unique opportunity to witness a remarkable alignment in our solar system.
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Watch: "Mysterious Flying Spiral" Spotted In Night Sky Over Hawaii. Here's What It Is
A Japanese telescope camera has captured a bizarre blue "flying spiral" in Hawaii. The video showed the "mysterious" whirlpool of light in the shape of a spiral galaxy briefly appearing in the night sky above Maunakea on January 18.
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Rare X-Ray Emitting Cosmic Object Found in Milky Way Galaxy
In the latest and fascinating find, astronomers have detected a rare kind of cosmic object in the Milky Way galaxy. The object named MAXI J1816-195 is found to be emanating X-ray light that was first detected on June 7. The discovery was brought to light by astrophysicist Hitoshi Negoro of Nihon University, Japan, and his team.
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Japan Space Scientists Hunting for New Asteroid Name
The name has to be no more than 16 alphabetic letters long, and must not be commercial.
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Monstrous Galaxy Spotted Near The Edge of the Universe
Astronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy near the edge of the universe and found that it is forming stars hundreds to thousands of times faster than the Milky Way.
-
Universe's Earliest Stars Were Monstrous: Study
Little is known about the universe's earliest stars but if we believe astronomers, they might have been hundreds of times more massive than the sun.
-
Astronomers spot first possible 'exomoon'
The astronomers used a technique called gravitational microlensing, in which one star passes in front of another as seen from Earth.
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Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster
Japanese astronomers claimed to have found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.Using a powerful telescope based in Hawaii, the team peered back through time to a point just one billion years after the Big Bang, the birth of the universe.
