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Google’s machine learning AI discovers two new planets in NASA’s Kepler telescope data

Dec 18, 2017

NASA and Google announced Thursday that a collaboration using advanced computer analysis of existing data has discovered two new planets in distant star systems, one of which is part of the first star system fo...

Astronomers solve the mystery of strange G2 object at the heart of Milky Way galaxy

Jayaram Pawar

Nov 5, 2014

Innovation

A thin object has been observed in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The object is thin and it is not formed of hydrogen affirm astronomers. They could also be two binary stars, which are making orbit around ...

Milkyway Galaxy steals gases from neighboring dwarf galaxies

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 18, 2014

Innovation

In a new study, astronomers have found that Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy that contains Earth's Solar System, steals nearby spheroidal dwarf galaxies' star-forming gases. According to the astronomers, the dwarf ...

NASA decodes why Sun’s outermost layer Plasma Bomb is hotter than its surface

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 18, 2014

Innovation

NASA - Paola Testa led team of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) has found new clues to the mystery of coronal heating using observations from the recently launched Interface Region Imaging ...

Earth and Moon are 60 million years older than previously thought, says a research

Jamie Hacking

Jun 12, 2014

Innovation

A new research presented at Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California suggests that The Earth and the Moon may be around 60 million years older than previously thought. The timing of the gia...

Unstable climatic change, a hindrance to alien life

Jamie Hacking

Jun 12, 2014

Innovation

Finding new planets with climatic conditions enough for the survival of humans has always been in the prime focus for the research and studies related to astronomy. The solar system houses innumerable po...

Sunspot images by NASA Solar Telescope reveals new patterns

Platonium

Jun 4, 2014

Innovation

New images of Sun taken by a new Solar Telescope is showing a sunspot formation in action that may give scientists clues as to why the phenomena occurs. For a long time, sunspots have been a mystery to astro...

Astronomical society says light years far Exoplanets have monster problems

Platonium

Jun 3, 2014

Innovation

The 224th American Astronomical Science meeting in Boston has been abuzz with discussion on exoplanets, with many findings indicating that they have some big problems. Exoplanets are gigantic planets, with s...

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