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The History of Home Galaxy: Two earliest building blocks discovered and named Shiva and Shakti  

The formation of our home galaxy Milky Way began 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has undergone a sequence of mergers with other...

Planetary Defence: DART Impact Changed both Orbit and Shape of asteroid 

In the last 500 million years, there have been at least five episodes of mass extinctions of life-forms on the Earth when more than...

New Most Detailed Images of the Star-forming Region NGC 604 

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken near-infrared and mid-infrared images of the star-forming region NGC 604, located nearby in the neighbourhood of home...

Prospect of Life in Europa’s Ocean: Juno Mission finds low Oxygen Production  

Europa, one of the largest satellites of Jupiter has a thick water-ice crust and a vast subsurface saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface hence...

First Direct Detection of Neutron Star Formed in Supernova SN 1987A  

In a study reported recently, astronomers observed the SN 1987A remnant using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results showed emission lines of ionized...

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC): NASA tests Laser  

Radio frequency based deep space communication faces constraints due to low bandwidth and increasing need of high data transmission rates. Laser or optical based...

Have Astronomers discovered the first “Pulsar – Black hole” binary system? 

Astronomers have reported detection of a compact object of about 2.35 solar masses in the globular cluster NGC 1851 in our home galaxy Milky...

near-Earth asteroid 2024 BJ to make closest approach to Earth  

On 27 January 2024, an airplane-sized, near-Earth asteroid 2024 BJ will pass Earth at a closest distance of 354,000 Km.  It will come as close as 354,000...

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