The Earth could also be struck by a high speed stream from a coronal hole. New Delhi: A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) has been detected erupting from the Sun in the early morning hours of 20 August. These are violent outbursts where hot gas from the atmosphere of the Sun is hurled outwards …
The image was captured as part of a campaign to observe supernovas in nearby galaxies. Hubble’s capture of UGC 11861. (Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, C. Kilpatrick). New Delhi: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the spiral galaxy designated as UGC 11861 at a distance of 69 million lightyears in …
The filaments of gas and dust are shaped by the surrounding stars. Hubble’s capture of the N11 cluster of emission nebulae. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. M. Apellaniz (Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC/INTA Inst. Nac. de Tec. Aero.); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)). New Delhi: The Hubble Space Telescope has …
ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted salt left behind by drying water on Mars. The salt deposit discovered on Mars. (Image Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS). New Delhi: The Trace Grace Orbiter of the European Space Agency has spotted discovered a mineral footprint left behind by evaporating water on an ancient riverbed in the southern hemisphere …
The researchers have constrained the nature of the engine driving mysterious repeating fast radio bursts. Illustration of a plasma bubble around a magnetar. (Image Credit: US NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO S. Dagnello). New Delhi: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are among the most powerful cosmic explosions, releasing an immense amount of energy in radio frequencies in …
Astronomers have found dead stars smeared with the remains of shredded exoplanets. An exoplanet and a debris disk surrounding a polluted white dwarf star. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). New Delhi: White Dwarf are the final stages of stellar evolution, and are the exploded cores of dead stars that continue to burn. Astronomers have identified …
The discovery paves the way for capturing and storing carbon using plantation forests. Tulip Trees have been discovered to contain a totally unique type of wood. (image Credit: Douglas Sacha/Moment/Getty Images). New Delhi: Scientists have conducted an evolutionary survey of the microscopic structure of wood from the most iconic trees and shrubs around …
The early galaxies spotted by Webb Space Telescope may not fit in standard cosmological limits. Webb’s first Deep Field. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI). New Delhi: The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into the dawn of time with its sensitive infrared gaze, and scientists cannot reconcile everything that they are seeing with …
The missions do not match with the Integrated Launch Manifest revealed by IN-SPACe earlier in the year. The SSLV is ISRO’s smallest orbital rocket. (Image Credit: ISRO). New Delhi: Responding to a question posed at the Lok Sabha, Space Minister Jitendra Singh has revealed the remaining missions by ISRO slotted for 2024. There are …
New research indicates that LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor emerged 4.2 billlion years ago. An illustration of LUCA fighting viruses 4.2 billion years ago. (Image Credit: UCL/Science Graphic Design). New Delhi: About 4.3 billion years ago, an embryonic Sun began to produce energy through nuclear fusion, marking the birth of the star. All …