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NASA, ESA set to release first images from Solar Orbiter Mission
Science | Jul 14, 2020, 09:33 AM ISTFollowing the February 9 launch, the Solar Orbiter had made its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June. The mission had turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time. This flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun.
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Star brighter than sun disappears. Find out how
Science | Jul 14, 2020, 08:48 AM ISTA 'monster' star that was over 2 million times brighter than the sun disappeared in 2019. A study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has included shocking information about the star.
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Super HD pictures of Sun captured using Hi-C camera: What it is, how it works and more
Technology | Jun 25, 2020, 09:09 PM ISTLooking at Sun in super HD is super exciting. Hi-C or High-Resolution Coronal Imager is being used here to capture such a detailed shot of the sun. Can you take a similar image?
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NASA's 10-year time lapse of sun: Watch a whole decade in video
Science | Jun 24, 2020, 11:02 PM ISTNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's observatory has gathered as many as 450 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years.
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'Mirror image' of earth, sun found 3000 light-years away
Science | Jun 09, 2020, 10:00 AM ISTScientists have discovered a massive exoplanet that orbits a star located some 3,000 light-years away from us and it may be potentially habitable.
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Largest ozone layer hole over Arctic closed? Here's what we know so far
Science | Apr 27, 2020, 10:08 AM ISTThe largest hole in the earth's ozone layer over the Arctic has closed. Scientists have confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer which was 1 million square kilometers wide over the Arctic has now healed.
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New NASA mission to study causes of solar particle storms
Science | Mar 31, 2020, 11:08 PM ISTNASA is planning to launch a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space.
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Never-seen-before image of Sun captured by world's largest telescope
Science | Jan 30, 2020, 10:50 AM ISTThe Sun looks like a boiling pot of popcorn, belies the notion of a bland yellow orb. Details in the newly released images show plasma, which covers the sun, that appears to boil.
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Wolf moon eclipse on January 10: Where to watch, timing of the first lunar eclipse of 2020
Science | Jan 07, 2020, 07:57 AM ISTWolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.
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A Star 1400 times the Sun may explode and be visible during day, say scientists
Science | Dec 27, 2019, 09:43 PM ISTBetelguese is a star in the Orion constellation and is one of the brightest objects in the sky. However, Betelgeuse has rapidly fallen down the list of brightest objects in the night sky.
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'Ring of fire': People witness annular solar eclipse in Tamil Nadu
India | Dec 26, 2019, 12:27 PM ISTSolar Eclipse 2019: People in Tamil Nadu across several districts including Chennai, Tiruchirapalli, Udhagamandalam, Madurai others witnessed Solar eclipse 2019 watching sun turning into a ring of fire.
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PM Modi shares photos of him watching solar eclipse, says he was enthusiastic about it
India | Dec 26, 2019, 12:27 PM ISTPM Modi posted photos of him on Twitter witnessing solar eclipse 2019 when sun turned into a 'ring of fire' on Thursday saying like many Indians, I was enthusiastic about Solar Eclipse 2019.
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Milky Way is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun: Study
Science | Dec 14, 2019, 05:57 PM ISTWhile it is not possible to put the entire Milky Way on a scale, that has not deterred astronomers from trying to make measurements of our home galaxy. According to a new "robust" estimate of Milky Way's mass measurement, it is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe takes close view of Sun; discovers dust-free zone
Science | Dec 05, 2019, 10:08 AM ISTNASA's Parker Solar Probe will sweep past Venus on December 26 for the second gravity-assist of the $1.5 billion mission and make its fourth close solar encounter in January.
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Scientists discover monster black hole, 70 times bigger than Sun
Science | Nov 28, 2019, 01:17 PM ISTUntil just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.
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In rare sky show, Mercury to pass through Sun today
Science | Nov 11, 2019, 11:15 AM ISTA transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. Transits of Mercury occur in May or November.
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Solar system to have another foreign guest, new comet zooming towards sun
Science | Sep 14, 2019, 02:18 PM ISTBoth NASA and the European Space Agency are reporting that a newly discovered comet zooming toward the sun is likely from another star.
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VIDEO | Comet's death dive captured on camera, sungrazer rams into sun
Aug 17, 2019, 12:19 PM ISTAn amazing video captured by the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft jointly launched by NASA and the European Space Agency in 1995, shows how a comet getting fully destroyed while diving towards the sun.
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New NASA missions to study Sun, its effects on space weather
Jun 21, 2019, 05:37 PM ISTNASA will launch two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather, the US space agency said.
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Moon's crust could be key in solving ancient mysteries of Sun, says NASA
Jun 19, 2019, 03:28 PM ISTThe scientists suspected that one big question informed the other -- that the history of the Sun is buried in the Moon's crust.