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How scientists heard hum from the universe?

An international team of esteemed astronomers, consisting of scientists from Europe, India and Japan, have made a significant discovery by monitoring pulsars utilizing six of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes, including upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), India's largest

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Gravitational waves first envisioned by Albert Einstein exist

A century ago Albert Einstein had envisioned gravitational waves. Finally astronomers have made a discovery confirming existence of gravitational waves. Background hum of the universe discovered by astronomers is creation of gravitational waves first envisioned by Einstein. This groundbreaking discovery

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Ways to measure distances in universe

It is not a joke to measure distances in universe. Reason is simple, universe is vast and objects in the universe are usually too far away. Universe is so vast that large part of it is still unobservable. Measuring distances

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Newly observed celestial phenomenon – Trail of stars left behind by runway black hole tearing through the universe

Newly observed celestial phenomenon

Some images from NASA’s Hubble space telescope has helped in discovery of a celestial phenomenon never observed before, trail of stars left behind by a runaway black hole barreling across the cosmos. The said black hole was initially identified as

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Observable versus unobservable universe

Observable versus unobservable universe

Billions of years have passed since the big bang that created our universe, to be precise 13.75 billion years, but still, we can’t observe the whole of the universe. As the universe is continually expanding a photon emitted at the

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Kuiper belt versus Oort cloud

Kuiper belt versus Oort cloud

Beyond the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper belt. This thick disk of icy rocks is more or less aligned with orbit of planets in the solar system. It is similar to asteroid belt spanning between orbits of Mars and

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History of Space Exploration

Space Exploration by mankind is but natural. The infiniteness of outer space has been visible to human eyes even before the outset of human civilization. Man has been gazing at the sky with astonishment since time immemorial and when this

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Space Programs

When it all started, the stated aim of space programs was an exploration of outer space. But as time passed real intentions came to the fore. Today the USA has two separate space programs. The civilian space program is run

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Space Tourism

There is ample evidence of the fact that prehistoric man was not at all accustomed to sedentary life. That means man is a wanderer by nature. As man became civilized sedentary life got wide acceptance but still, man remained a

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Moon fraternity

Our earth has one moon only but the moon fraternity has various other members apart from our earth’s moon, within our solar system, and outside it. Moon fraternity has 691 observed members within our solar system. 227 is the count

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