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This artist's concept shows a pulsar, which is like a lighthouse, as its light appears in regular pulses as it rotates. Pulsars are dense remnants of exploded stars, and are part of a class of objects called neutron stars.

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Neutron star that spins 707 times a second sends gamma rays into the universe, can be seen even from earth

The fastest neutron star ever discovered by humans spins a mindblowing 716 times a second, which makes it a pulsar

Sep 26, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

Space

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Massive neutron star spotted near black hole, will it face imminent death?

Earlier, scientists had detected a neutron star swallowed by a black hole, as gravitational wave discovery machines suddenly detected ripples from the space

Sep 19, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

Space

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Depth of universe way beyond imagination: Astronomers spot 3,00,000 hidden galaxies

The discovery of these 3,00,000 previously hidden galaxies could improve our understanding of black holes and the phenomenon behind the evolution of galaxy clusters

Feb 20, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

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NASA New Year's Flyby: How To Watch New Horizons Spacecraft Explore Distant World

The mission team will then show the images taken by the spacecraft before the flyby after receiving the signal.

Dec 31, 2018

By Micah Ong

Nasa Space

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Scientists say universe is an expanding bubble in an extra dimension

The new research revealed that the universe could be an expanding bubble in an extra dimension

Dec 31, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

Space

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star cluster NGC 602.

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Astronomers discover unique star forming like a planet

Astronomers said that the star and disc they have observed is so massive that, rather than witnessing a planet forming in the disc, they saw another star being born.

Dec 16, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Space

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NASA names constellation after sci-fi monster, Godzilla

Researchers at NASA believe that Godzilla will be the perfect name for such a powerful constellation that formed after a huge explosion of gamma rays

Oct 20, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

Nasa

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If universe is ocean, humans have searched for aliens in swimming pool, claims new study

Researchers agrees with the views of astronomer Jill Tarter who said that it is idiotic to conclude aliens do not exist just because we have not found them

Oct 10, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

Nasa

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Black holes, not the dark matter physicists are looking for

For a brief while, physicists around the world did consider attributing dark matter to black holes, right after gravitational waves were detected in 2015.

Oct 3, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Space

The weak lensing surveys such as HSC prefer a slightly less clumpy Universe than that predicted by Planck. The pictures show the slight but noticeable difference as expected from large computer simulations. Is this difference a statistical fluctuation? As

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Here is a detailed dark matter map of the entire universe

The research involved studying about 10 million distant galaxies to understand dark energy better.

Sep 28, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Space

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Did Big Bang actually happen? Harvard scientists to test this model

Cosmic inflation has so far not had any way to conclusively prove, or more importantly disprove, so other explanations as to how the universe came to be still do exist.

Sep 24, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Supernovas are among the most powerful events in the universe, yet it cannot hold a candle to Vacuum Decay

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Our universe could already be dying with no chance of recovery: False vacuum theory

There is no way to prepare for something like this and there will be sign of it actually happening--once the process starts, there is no way to stop it.

Sep 19, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Space

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Strongest material in the universe could be found in dead stars

Nuclear pasta should be about 100 trillion times the density of water and to make a dent in it, a force of about 10 billion times of what is needed to break steel would be necessary, say researchers.

Sep 19, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Space

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Can black holes bring dead white dwarf stars back to life?

Tides caused by black holes on dead white dwarf stars can momentarily start it up and cause fission to take place momentarily.

Sep 1, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Space

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Strings attached: Ghost black hole may have evidence of another universe

Ghost black holes discovered in the cosmos could prove that another universe existed before before the creation of our own universe.

Aug 29, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Space

Lying around 20,000 light-years from us in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion)

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Newly discovered galaxies near Milky Way estimated to be 13 billion years old

As per the experts, all these oldest galaxies are more or less located in the orbits around and near our very own Milky Way

Aug 18, 2018

By Poulami Nag

Artist rendering of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe observing the sun.

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Parker Solar Probe: Live streaming of NASA's historic mission to touch the sun

NASA has delayed the launch of Parker Solar Probe for 24 hours, so Sunday it will take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Aug 11, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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There are colorful stars galore, but likely no habitable planets, inside the globular star cluster

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New study says Omega Centauri, mini-version of solar system but no sign of life

The stars in that part of the Milky Way are packed in too tightly, so they are likely to interact with each other every million years or so.

Aug 11, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

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How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310 million light years distant, a more precise determination could be coupled with its known recession speed to help humanity better calibrate the expansion rate of the enti

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Collapse of Universe: Scientists may know when and how it will die

Two Harvard scientists have created a model on how the universe will end and they suggested Big Crunch, Big Freeze and Big Rip theories.

Jul 27, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Scientist believe gravitational waves can reveal how fast universe is expanding

Researchers believe knowing how fast the universe is expanding could shed light on the origins of the existence as well as describe whether the cosmos is ultimately headed for collapse or indefinite expansion.

Jul 14, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Space

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