First ever proof of star devouring planet
August 21st, 2012 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 21 (IANS) Astronomers have come by the first ever evidence of an ageing star devouring its own planet especially after it expanded into a "red giant", the equivalent ... Read more...
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STAR News would be ABP News soon
April 16th, 2012 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The 24-hour news channel STAR News will soon be renamed ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika) News, Media Content and Communications Services (MCCS) announced Monday.MCCS is a ... Read more...
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Apple fans in China pay tribute to Jobs
October 6th, 2011 - 1:52 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Oct 6 (IANS) Apple fans in China were grief-stricken Thursday on learning about Steve Jobs' death."I was really shocked when I woke up and heard the news in the ... Read more...
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Earth ‘to get a second sun’
January 23rd, 2011 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 23 (IANS) The Earth could soon have a second sun, at least for a week or two.The cosmic phenomenon will happen when one of the brightest stars in the night ... Read more...
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Earth may witness second sun if Betelgeuse star in Orion nebula explodes
January 19th, 2011 - 6:47 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 19 (ANI): The Earth could have a second sun lighting up the sky, if only for a matter of weeks, should the infamous red super-giant star Betelgeuse in Orion's nebula ... Read more...
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Ashton Kutcher threatens legal action over sex tape using his name
December 4th, 2010 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Dec 04 (ANI): 'Valentine's Day' star Aston Kutcher has threatened to sue an adult film company for using his name to promote a sex tape featuring his rumoured mistress.Vivid Entertainment has ... Read more...
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Massive star goes supernova, smothered by its own dust
October 13th, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 13 (ANI): Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that a giant star in a remote galaxy ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical ... Read more...
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NASA’s Chandra Observatory finds evidence of stellar cannibalism
September 15th, 2010 - 7:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 15 (ANI): NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Evidence has found evidence that a star has recently engulfed a companion star or a giant planet.The likely existence of such a "cannibal" ... Read more...
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Astronomers find hot water vapour around a carbon star
September 15th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 15 (ANI): Using the European Herschel space telescope, astronomers have found a hot water vapour formed deep into the atmosphere of a red giant pulsating carbon star, CW Leonis.An ... Read more...
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NASA Finds 2 New Planets In Milky Way
August 27th, 2010 - 7:32 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
August 27, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Astronomers from NASA has announced that they have discovered two earth like planets orbiting the same star. The Kepler Space Telescope showed evidence of ... Read more...
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Origin of key cosmic explosions still shrouded in mystery
July 13th, 2010 - 5:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 13 (ANI): Type Ia supernova brightens and dims so predictably that astronomers use the variety to measure the universe's expansion. The resulting discovery of dark energy and the accelerating universe ... Read more...
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Close-up snaps of dying star shows how our Sun’s going to snuff out
December 16th, 2009 - 2:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 16 (ANI): Astronomers have captured close-up photos of a star writhing in its death throes, which is indicative of the fate that our Sun awaits in the future.Chi Cygni, ... Read more...
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New observations by astronomers deepen mystery about star-like Suns
December 8th, 2009 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 8 (ANI): An extensive study made with ESO's (European Southern Observatory's) Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun.Unusual year-long variations in ... Read more...
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Astronomers capture most high-resolution images of dying giant star
August 8th, 2009 - 4:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 8 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has made the most high-resolution images of a dying giant star to date.Led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio ... Read more...
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Physicists find new explanation for solar system’s being
July 21st, 2009 - 7:10 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 21 (IANS) A team of international astrophysicists has found a new explanation for the early composition of our solar system.
The team has found that radioactive nuclei found in the ... Read more...
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Dying giant star may have fuelled life in our solar system
July 21st, 2009 - 3:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 21 (ANI): In a new research, an international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that suggests life in our solar system may have been fuelled by a nearby dying giant ... Read more...
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Solar X-rays may create life on Saturn’s moon Titan
June 26th, 2009 - 1:52 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 26 (ANI): A new laboratory study has suggested that blasting the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan with X-rays can produce DNA building blocks, a finding that adds to evidence that ... Read more...
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Red giant star Betelgeuse mysteriously shrinks over past 15 years
June 10th, 2009 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 10 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has mysteriously shrunk over the past ... Read more...
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Giant star may be used to measure distances up to 300 million light years and beyond
June 9th, 2009 - 4:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 9 (ANI): Scientists from Ohio State University have found a way to measure distances to objects three times farther away in outer space than previously possible, by discovering that a ... Read more...
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Hubble camera captures final “pretty picture” of planetary nebula
May 11th, 2009 - 5:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 11 (ANI): The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the image of a planetary nebula as the final "pretty picture" of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), which is ... Read more...
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Sun will go out in a blaze of glory
March 25th, 2009 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 25 (ANI): If you ever wondered how the Sun will look like when it dies, then be sure that it will got out in a blaze of glory.Planetary nebulae ... Read more...
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Astronomers spot cosmic dust fountain
February 6th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): A team of astronomers has literally spotted a cosmic dust fountain in the far reaches of space, which is namely a double-star system that displays all the ... Read more...
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Giant stellar factory identified in early galaxy
February 5th, 2009 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 5 (ANI): Astronomers have identified a giant star producing region in a galaxy in the very early universe, which is millions of times larger than anything comparable in the ... Read more...
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Scientists find new planet orbiting dangerously close to red giant star
November 19th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A team of astronomers from Penn State and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland has discovered a new planet that is orbiting dangerously close to a red-giant star.The ... Read more...
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Siamese twin galaxies in a gentle gravitational embrace
June 27th, 2008 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 27 (ANI): Astronomers at Gemini Observatory have imaged two nearly identical spiral galaxies in Virgo, which is 90 million light years away, in the early stages of a gentle ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover giant elliptical ring around dead star
May 29th, 2008 - 1:43 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 29 (ANI): Astronomers have detected a giant elliptical ring around a rare star known as magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion ... Read more...
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Ringing of star leads astronomers to find its birthplace
April 16th, 2008 - 12:40 pm ICT by admin
Munich, April 16 (ANI): A team of astronomers using ESOs (European Southern Observatory) 3.6-m telescope have studied the ringing of a planet-harbouring star, and have thus found its place of origin. ... 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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Imaging a galaxy ablaze with star birth
February 27th, 2008 - 11:26 am ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 27 (IANS) NASA astronomers have created a striking and detailed ultraviolet image of an entire galaxy "ablaze with star birth" by combining 39 individual frames, taken over 11 hours of ... Read more...
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