Universe
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Universe 2 billion years younger? Study makes startling revelations
Science | September 13, 2019 15:15 ISTNew calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos.
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New study says universe expanding faster and is younger
April 27, 2019 11:50 ISTThe universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it’s about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that’s sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of their most basic concepts.
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Meet Hyperion, largest known structure of early universe, million, billion times massive than the Sun
October 18, 2018 22:01 ISTHyperion's unimaginably enormous mass is estimated to be a million billion times that of our own Sun (which is approximately 1,048 Jupiters, or 333,000 Earths).
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Nothing was around before origin of universe: Stephen Hawking
March 05, 2018 16:17 ISTHawking's theory lies upon the assumption that the universe has no boundaries.
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Our Solar system could have been formed in a wind-blown bubble around a massive star: Study
December 27, 2017 18:05 ISTThe general prevailing theory is that our solar system was formed billions of years ago near a supernova. However, the latest study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star.
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The universe we are living in, shouldn't exist, say top scientists - HERE'S THE ANSWER
October 26, 2017 13:23 ISTBut since this never happened, scientists are still baffled, as the universe was born with equal amounts of matter and anti-matter.
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Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis goes online, crashes Cambridge University website
October 25, 2017 8:59 ISTProfessor Hawking's 1966 thesis "Properties of expanding universes" was made freely available for the first time on the publications section of university's website at 12.01 a.m. on Monday.
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Most accurate measurement of universe's dark matter unveiled
World | August 04, 2017 19:48 ISTThe scientists unveiled the dark matter map in a presentation at the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields meeting at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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NASA to create the coolest spot in universe on board the ISS
World | March 08, 2017 17:58 ISTIf you thought exploring galaxies and discovering planets wasn’t ‘cool’ enough, US space agency NASA is now aiming to create what will possibly be the coolest spot in the universe. NASA is planning to
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The universe has entered its ‘dying phase’, life may ‘end soon’: Experts
Lifestyle | December 05, 2016 16:22 ISTThe universe has entered its ‘old age’ and is now preparing for death as the energy levels in the galaxies are going down due to the fusion of matter in stars, according to experts.
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China’s ‘Little Bee’ searches for strongest blasts in universe
World | October 27, 2016 17:24 ISTIn endeavours to hunt down gamma-beam blasts, a square-shaped probe, dubbed "Little Bee" by Chinese scientists is currently searching for strongest explosion in the universe. The formal name of the probe, placed on Tiangong-2, is
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Bigger than we thought! Number of galaxies in the universe 20 times more than previous estimates
World | October 14, 2016 15:45 ISTThe universe contains a dizzying two trillion galaxies, up to 20 times more than previously estimated, new research has found. Over the last 20 years scientists have used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to
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SEE PIC! NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captures stunning image of Pandora's Cluster
World | September 29, 2016 16:39 ISTNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a new image of Pandora's Cluster, or Abell 2744, which will allow astronomers to study the distant universe. The Pandora’s Cluster is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the
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Universe not directionally oriented, expanding uniformly in all directions, says research
World | September 27, 2016 16:46 ISTThe universe is not spinning or moving in any particular direction, but is instead expanding equally in all directions, new research has concluded. On the basis of data collected from European Space Agency's Planck satellite,
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Black holes may be ‘back door’ to another world, claims study
World | August 06, 2016 10:04 ISTWhile physicists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of black holes for decades, a new study suggests that they may actually be ‘back doors’ to other parts of the universe.
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This incredible 3D map of the Universe will help scientists understand dark energy
World | July 17, 2016 11:04 ISTWashington: A group of hundreds of scientists have created largest 3D map of the Universe which is letting them better understand the mysterious dark energy. Scientists have produced the biggest 3D map of the Universe
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Universe becoming cleaner as stars mop up cosmic dust, discover astronomers
World | July 01, 2016 9:26 ISTLondon: The universe id slowly becoming cleaner as more and more cosmic dust is being mopped up by the formation of stars within galaxies, astronomers has revealed. According to the researchers at Cardiff University in
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Physicist Stephen Hawking plans to map entire known universe
World | June 26, 2016 20:55 ISTLondon: Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will map the entire known universe using a supercomputing centre he founded at Cambridge University and Cosmos computer which will plot the position and movement of billions of galaxies,
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Amazing! The Universe is expanding up to 9 pc faster than scientists thought
World | June 03, 2016 12:20 ISTWashington: In a significant find, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding five percent to nine percent faster than expected. There are a few possible explanations for the universe's
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Scientists discover hidden galaxies behind Milky Way
World | February 10, 2016 10:36 ISTSydney: A team of international scientists has discovered hundreds of hidden galaxies hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, some 250 million light years away from the Earth.The discovery may
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