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NASA Captures ‘Flame-Throwing Guitar’ Nebula ‘Rocking Out’ In Space

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NASA Captures ‘Flame-Throwing Guitar’ Nebula ‘Rocking Out’ In Space

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary sight in the cosmos — a nebula resembling a flame-throwing guitar. This discovery was made possible by the combined efforts of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Named Guitar Nebula, it showcases the cosmic artistry of a collapsed star, ejecting streams of energetic particles in a spectacle…

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Fast-Forming Alien Planet Has Astronomers Puzzled. Defies Current Understanding Of Physics

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Fast-Forming Alien Planet Has Astronomers Puzzled. Defies Current Understanding Of Physics

Washington: Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form – quite swift in cosmic terms – in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the speed of planetary formation. This infant world, estimated at around 10 to 20 times the mass of Earth,…

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As Supreme Court Dealt With Pollution, Punjab Recorded Highest Farm Fire Count

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As Supreme Court Dealt With Pollution, Punjab Recorded Highest Farm Fire Count

New Delhi: Around 1,000 farm fires were detected in Punjab alone today — on a day the Supreme Court ripped into the Delhi government over the pollution blanket over north India that went off charts. Hiren Jethva, an aerosol remote sensing scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, told NDTV this evening that this data…

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Smog Blanket Over North India, Air Quality Drops To “Severe” Level

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Smog Blanket Over North India, Air Quality Drops To “Severe” Level

Satellite images show the smog blanket stretching across practically the whole of north India. There has been an early onset of toxic cover across Delhi and north India this year owing to stubble burning across the north Indian states. What is also shocking is the scale of the smog cover, as well as the level…

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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life Using 1981 Tech

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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life Using 1981 Tech

NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California re-established contact with the spacecraft on October 24. The spacecraft, which is in interstellar space over 15 billion…

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NASA Study Suggests Life May Exist On Mars Below Ice Surface

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NASA Study Suggests Life May Exist On Mars Below Ice Surface

Is there life on Mars? Scientists have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time. Although no concrete evidence has been found till date, a latest study by NASA has sparked curiosity. The US space agency suggests that microbes might find a potential home beneath the frozen water on the red planet’s…

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NASA to launch mission on Oct. 10 to look for habitable spots on Europa moon

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NASA to launch mission on Oct. 10 to look for habitable spots on Europa moon

A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990’s, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed…

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Tonight, As India Sleeps, Earth Will Get A ‘Mini Moon’

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Tonight, As India Sleeps, Earth Will Get A ‘Mini Moon’

New Delhi: The Earth will embrace a new and temporary ‘mini moon’ tonight, with a connection to India’s epic Mahabharat. Called “2024 PT5” it is just about ten meters in diameter and it will remain in the Earth’s orbit for about 53 days before heading back into the vastness of the solar system. Its size,…

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Space X To Bring Back Sunita Williams On Way To International Space Station

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Space X To Bring Back Sunita Williams On Way To International Space Station

Washington: The NASA-SpaceX spacecraft, carrying Crew-9 members NASA astronaut Nick Hague (commander) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (mission specialist), was on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, in a mission that aims to bring stranded Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams back to Earth in February next year. The NASA-SpaceX mission safely reached…

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How Does Black Hole 250 Million Light Years Away Sound? NASA Releases Audio

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How Does Black Hole 250 Million Light Years Away Sound? NASA Releases Audio

Representational Image US space agency NASA has recorded an eerie audio clip that captures sound waves coming out of a supermassive black hole situated 250 million light years away. The acoustic waves, coming out of the black hole located at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, were transposed up 57 and 58 octaves…

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