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  Astronomers discover Jupiter-like planet that orbits two Suns

  World | June 14, 2016 12:02 IST

  A team of astronomers led by the team from Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland have used data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify a huge planet, almost the size of Jupiter, that orbits two Suns simultaneously.

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  Astronomers peer into planet-hosting star for the first time

  World | September 14, 2015 11:23 IST

  London: Astronomers have successfully peered through the “amniotic sac” of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.No one so far has been

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  Strongest Aurora found beyond solar system

  World | July 30, 2015 11:27 IST

  Washington: Astronomers have discovered the first aurora that is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen beyond the solar system.The aurora - similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth - was found not

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  Runaway star grazed solar system 70,000 years ago

  World | February 18, 2015 21:14 IST

  New Delhi: An international team of astronomers have discovered a runaway star wandered into our solar system's backyard about 70000 years ago. The findings are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.This runaway star, nick-named "Scholz's

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  Mysterious giant cloud over Mars puzzle astronomers

  World | February 17, 2015 10:05 IST

  New Delhi: For space watchers, Mars is like a second home. Astronomers have been studying the red planet for centuries and a mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists scratching their heads.Two strange, cloud-like

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  Hubble discovers source of Magellanic Stream

  World | August 10, 2013 10:15 IST

  Washington, Aug 10: Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of Magellanic Stream — a ribbon of gas stretching almost halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf

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  Astronomers Claim Biggest Haul Of Other Worlds

  World | September 13, 2011 23:18 IST

  Paris, Sep 13: Astronomers today unveiled a haul of more than 50 planets orbiting other stars, including a “super-Earth” which inhabits a zone where, providing conditions are right, water could exist in liquid form.It is