New Delhi, March 07, 2022: A team of scientists, including Indian and International collaborators, have derived the accurate value of Pluto’s atmospheric pressure at its surface. It is more than 80,000 times less than the atmospheric pressure at mean sea level on Earth. The pressure was calculated from data obtained by observation of stellar occultation […]
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A star with a heartbeat and without a magnetic field discovered
New Delhi, January 12, 2022: A group of Indian and international scientists have spotted a peculiar binary star that shows heartbeat but no pulsations contrary to the norm of binary stars of sporting both heartbeats as well as pulsations. This star is called HD73619 in Praesepe (M44), located in the Cancer constellation, one of the […]
Indian astronomers detect huge optical flare in one of the oldest astronomic objects
New Delhi, Feb 16, 2021: Indian Astronomers have reported one of the strongest flares from a feeding supermassive black hole or blazar called BL Lacertae. Analysis of the flare from this blazar, one of the oldest astronomical objects, can help trace the mass of the black hole and the source of this emission. Such analysis can […]