New Delhi, November 10, 2021: Indian Astronomers have found a new method to understand the atmosphere of extra solar planets. They have shown that planets going around stars other than the Sun can be studied by observing the polarization of light and studying polarization signatures. These polarization signatures or variations in scattering intensity of light […]
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Supernova explosion traced to one of the hottest kind of stars
New Delhi, April 8, 2021: Indian astronomers have tracked a rare supernova explosion and traced it to one of the hottest kind of stars called Wolf–Rayet stars or WR stars. The rare Wolf–Rayet stars are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun and have intrigued astronomers for long. They are massive stars […]