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JWST observation of Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through the Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. It was first…
Fortune must have had a pretty good time when the solar nebula exploded, tossed, roared, and turned around 4.6 billion years ago. If the slightest something hadn’t gone the way it did, we wouldn’t be here writing and studying the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what is’ of our universe. One night, like our good old Galileo,…
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Over 10 lakh interstellar objects the size of the Statue of Liberty are drifting unseen in the fringes of our solar system, a new yet-to-be peer-reviewed study has stated. Though unlikely to come in close contact with Earth, these cosmic nomads have travelled from our nearest stellar neighbours and may have been captured from other star systems…
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Scientists have claimed that an interstellar visitor, much larger than any celestial body in our solar system, might have dramatically altered the orbits of the planets. The research, yet to be peer-reviewed but published in the arXiv preprint database, posits that this cosmic intruder, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, passed very close to…
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A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system, potentially offering insights into Earth’s distant future. The rocky planet, about the same mass as Earth, revolves around a white dwarf in the constellation Sagittarius. The discovery brings a glimmer of hope for Earth’s…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Astronomical Instruments 1 / 5 | What is an armillary sphere? A model of objects in the sky, representing lines of celestial longitude and latitude An ancient astronomical instrument used for navigation A type of instrument used to observe planets A device for measuring atmospheric pressure An armillary…
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The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this undated NASA handout photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program in 1972. | Photo Credit: Reuters During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 – the last time people walked on the moon…
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In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On close inspection, the rocks turned out to be from outer space: lumps of rubble billions of years old, left over from the dawn of the Solar System….