Astronomers

'Conjunction' is a term used by astronomers to describe the alignment of three planets. This is a typical occurrence that frequently takes place. But the alignment of five planets is an uncommon occurrence. Such a rare planetary procession…
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New Delhi: Astronomers have detected a persistently active fast radio burst coming from a distant dwarf galaxy, nearly 3 billion light-years away from earth, reported NDTV. As per reports, fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the…
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London: A team of astronomers has captured an image of the hottest and most massive planet-hosting star system found to date. The giant planet, named b Centauri (AB)b or b Centauri b, is located approximately 325 light-years away in the…
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Sydney: An international team of astronomers have for the first time ever discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way's centre. The radio waves fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source and…
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New York: In a distant star system -- a mere 1,300 light years away from the Earth -- US astronomers may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars, a finding that has implications for bolstering understanding of planet…
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New Delhi: Tracking a rare supernova explosion, Indian astronomers have traced it to one of the hottest kind of stars, called Wolf-Rayet stars or WR stars. The rare Wolf-Rayet stars are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of…
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New York: A group of astronomers has for the first time detected a powerful fast radio burst (FRB) coming from a source in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, which is 30,000 light-years away. On April 27 this year, two space observatories --…
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New York: Researchers have detected a strange repeating rhythm of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light-years away. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are short, intense flashes of radio…
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