Flotilla of spacecraft to give accurate space weather forecasts
February 13th, 2011 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 13 (ANI): Space scientists from the UK may soon send a flotilla of spacecraft into orbit around the sun to provide an early warning system for the huge solar explosions ... Read more...
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Vast solar system detected 127 light years away
August 25th, 2010 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 25 (IANS) A vast solar system orbiting a sun-like star has been detected 127 light years from the earth.
The planetary system is believed to be the largest ever found ... Read more...
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Astronomers take picture of exoplanets
April 15th, 2010 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 15 (ANI): By using a small telescope, astronomers took a picture of three small planets orbiting a star outside the Solar System.The team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) snapped ... Read more...
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Blue Moon Rumors Dismissed By Astronomers
December 29th, 2009 - 9:48 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Dec.29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The recent hullabaloo about the possibility of a Blue moon on New Year's eve has turned out to be a damp squib. It is not going to ... Read more...
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Solar eclipse viewing may be marred in China by rainfall on July 22
July 21st, 2009 - 2:44 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 21 (ANI): Officials at China's National Meteorological Center have predicted that the cities that had been widely regarded as the ideal places to watch the rare total solar eclipse ... Read more...
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Tidal interaction making Earth and Sun push each other away
June 2nd, 2009 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 2 (ANI): A new research has suggested that the Earth is moving away from the Sun because tidal interaction is making them both literally push each other away.Thanks to radar ... Read more...
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Satellites the size of a loaf of bread to study space weather
October 2nd, 2008 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 2 (ANI): Researchers and students from the University of Michigan in the US will design and build a satellite about the size of a loaf of bread, which will ... Read more...
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Light from stellar explosion older than both Earth and Sun detected
April 3rd, 2008 - 11:53 am ICT by admin
Washington, April 3 (ANI): Light from a stellar explosion older than both the Sun and Earth and more than half way across the universe, has been detected by an amateur internet ... Read more...
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NASAs space probe to rendezvous with comet Hartley 2
December 31st, 2007 - 1:37 pm ICT by admin
Edinburgh, Dec 31 (ANI): A spacecraft known as Deep Impact, would be setting off on a 1.6 billion-mile journey across the solar system for a flyby rendezvous with comet Hartley 2.En route, ... Read more...
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