Sydney, The Milky Way’s disk of stars is not stable or flat but instead becomes increasingly “warped” and twisted far away from the galaxy’s centre, according to astronomers. “We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat, like Andromeda which you can easily see through a telescope,” said Professor[Read More…]
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Repeated fast radio bursts from space make ‘alien life’ theories alive
Washington, Astronomers, including some of Indian origin, have detected repeating energy bursts from a single source from deep space for the second time in history — giving impetus to theories that there could be evidence of advanced alien life. A Canadian-led team of scientists found the second repeating fast radio[Read More…]
Farout, most distant object in solar system
Washington: Astronomers have discovered the most distant object in the solar system, a dwarf planet about 120 astronomical units from the sun. Its distance is 120 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun — so far away that its discoverers called it “Farout” though its official name is[Read More…]
Astronomers find a treasure trove of planets hiding in dust
Bejing: “Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, a new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. The findings, based on a survey of young stars in a star-forming region in the constellation Taurus, showed many of them to[Read More…]
Earth-sized planet that could host alien life found outside solar system
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet outside our solar system which is expected to be temperate and could be a “comfortable abode for possible life”. This Earth-sized world, named Ross 128 b, is likely to have a surface temperature that may also be close to that of the Earth, according[Read More…]