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The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth — Pleiades — seems to be ever happening, now that small, rocky planets may be in the making in the cluster!
It is all happening around one...
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Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million...
made popular Jul 11 2008
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new,...
made popular Jun 25 2008
This stunning image of swirls of dust surrounding the variable star V838 Monocerotis near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from our sun, was...
made popular Jun 12 2008
When Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet, there was a massive outcry of support. However, the latest interstellar demotion is unlikely to gather the same...
made popular Jun 6 2008
Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
made popular May 16 2008
Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system’s orbit through the Milky...
made popular May 7 2008
So you’ve lived here all your life — in fact, everyone has — but what do you really know about the Milky Way galaxy? Sure, you know it’s a spiral, and it’s...
made popular Mar 13 2008
For centuries, men have wondered whether we are alone in this universe or there are other living beings similar to us in the giant cosmos. While science fictions have...
made popular Feb 18 2008
Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.
made popular Feb 18 2008
When our human mind was still busy exploring the various fascinating aspects of the universe, new and more mysterious things outside it awaits our attention. The...
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How has our universe evolve? Cosmologists have through decades come up with various models that talk of the universe’s growth from a few hundred thousand years after...
made popular Nov 17 2007
We have discovered the continents on the globe, now is the time to discover some of the celestial bodies on the globe itself. This Celestial globe is a complete...
made popular Aug 10 2007
Collision or merger of two galaxies, mostly one large galaxy and several small ones is common in the Universe. Astronomers have also observed some major mergers among...
made popular Aug 7 2007
For the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system are determined. Thanks to NASA’s Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic...
made popular May 29 2007
Approximately a century ago, when a Dutch astronomer named ‘Willem de Sitter’ propounded a ‘static model of the universe’ everybody thought of...
made popular May 25 2007
According to a recent study the solar system might be thrown from the close to centre position that it currently acquires to the boondocks when our galaxy Milky Way...
made popular May 15 2007
A mind-blowing finding has defied the age-old textbook information on the shape of our solar system – i.e. its being ‘elliptical’ – which...
made popular May 14 2007
Dwarf Spheroidals or dark galaxies are those small galaxies that are composed mainly of dark matter.
Such galaxies are usually satellites of other large galaxies like...
made popular Feb 15 2007
All these days we knew that our Milky Way has two best-known companions — the Magellanic Clouds, which are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies. But, a recent...
made popular Jan 13 2007
Researchers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have announced that they have discovered seven or perhaps eight dwarf galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way...
made popular Jan 10 2007
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A British team of astronomers from St Andrews University in Fife University in Staffordshire has discovered three planets, hotter and heavier than Jupiter! The planets...
made popular Nov 1 2007
Till now astronomers thought that when a star dies all the planets that are associated with the star also start counting their last breath. But like always the never...
made popular Jan 17 2007
Earlier we think that satellites are intended for environmental monitoring, meteorology, telecommunication, map making etc. But now these man made satellites will play...
made popular Nov 15 2006
As observations reach all the way into the central bulge of our galaxy, the finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets...
made popular Oct 9 2006
Hubble surpassing skies after skies reaches almost center of the galactic bulge here by opening new field of investigation for the scientists. In a groundbreaking...
made popular Oct 5 2006
Three more planets! Yes, all credits go to the Chilean telescope. It discovered a unique planetary system that shelters three planets in it. The planets are found to be...
made popular May 18 2006
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