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Coimbatore’s Mango Education launches an astronomy calendar

Coimbatore’s Mango Education launches an astronomy calendar

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Mango Astronomy Calendar launched by Obuli Chandran highlights celestial events like eclipses and meteor showers and features 12 astro images. | Photo Credit: Siva Saravanan S Stunning meteor showers, full moons and eclipses will light up the sky all through this year. While usually there are 12 full moons every year, this year, there will be 13 […]

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Webb Space Telescope renders Pillars of Creation with new depth, clarity

Webb Space Telescope renders Pillars of Creation with new depth, clarity

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One of the most celebrated, awe-inspiring images of modern astronomy, revealing colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust called the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered anew with greater depth, clarity and color by the James Webb Space Telescope. The new view of the pillars, first made famous when captured in 1995 by Webb’s predecessor […]

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Astronomers discover ‘cry from baby star’ that could help understand star formation better

Astronomers discover ‘cry from baby star’ that could help understand star formation better

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Researchers have detected a bipolar gas stream flowing out of Y256, a “baby star” in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This stream has a velocity of more than 54,000 kilometres per hour. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy that is about 200,000 light years away from the Milky Way. The mechanism of star formation […]

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Massive, unusually compact, ‘one of a kind’ triple star system detected for the first time

Massive, unusually compact, ‘one of a kind’ triple star system detected for the first time

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Earlier this year, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen announced the discovery of an unusual trio of stars. The system discovered by them consists of two stars that orbit one another and a third more massive star orbiting the pair. The research was published in the Royal Astronomical Society’s Monthly […]

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Rocket booster bursts into flames at SpaceX plant during test firing

Rocket booster bursts into flames at SpaceX plant during test firing

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Founder Elon Musk tweeted the team was “assessing damage” after the early evening explosion Founder Elon Musk tweeted the team was “assessing damage” after the early evening explosion A booster rocket developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for its next-generation Starship spacecraft burst into flames during a ground-test firing on Monday in Texas, dealing a likely […]

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A display of posters and charts on astronomy at District Central Library in Coimbatore

A display of posters and charts on astronomy at District Central Library in Coimbatore

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A pictorial display of charts and models at the district central library introduces students to the basics of astronomy, galaxies, stars and the milky way A pictorial display of charts and models at the district central library introduces students to the basics of astronomy, galaxies, stars and the milky way What is the connection between […]

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