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Sun's core rotates 4 times faster than its surface: Study

August 4, 2017

A team of researchers have discovered solar seismic waves which revealed that Sun’s core is rotating four times faster than its surface.  Earlier it was assumed that sun’s core rotate at same speed as the surface. The discovery was made ..

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Factbox: Breakthrough Starshot successfully launch world's smallest spacecrafts

July 31, 2017

Scientists have announced that the world’s smallest spacecrafts dubbed as Sprites ever launched are successfully travelling in low Earth orbit and communicating with systems on Earth.  The six prototypes of Sprites were launched in June 2017 as part of the ..

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Astrosat, Chandra and Hubble jointly detect massive cosmic explosion on Proxima Centauri

July 21, 2017

India’s first dedicated space observatory AstroSat along with other space and earth-based observatories have detected a massive coronal explosion on Proxima Centauri, sun’s closest star neighbour. The explosion was detected as part of joint multi-wavelength simultaneous observational campaign undertaken by ..

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Saraswati: Indian scientists discover supercluster of galaxies

July 14, 2017

A team of Indian astronomers have identified previously unknown, extremely large supercluster of galaxies located in the direction of constellation Pisces. It has been named “Saraswati”. It was discovered by astronomers from Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) ..

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Scientists discover smallest star known in the universe

July 13, 2017

Scientists from University of Cambridge, UK have discovered the smallest star in the universe. It has been named as EBLM J0555-57Ab. The star was identified by SuperWASP, a planet-finding experiment run by several universities. It was detected when it passed in ..

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Fact Box: Hottest Known Planet in Universe

June 8, 2017

Scientists have discovered the hottest known exoplanet, designated KELT-9b which is warmer than most stars in the universe. The study has been published in the journal Nature. Exoplanet is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star, ..

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