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Discovery of a Fast Radio Burst Within the Milky Way Throws up an Unlikely Source

Prakash Chandra 05/11/2020

Astronomers have reported an unprecedented discovery that throws new...

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Could One Type of Neutron Stars Explain Where Fast Radio Bursts Come From?

Debdutta Paul 03/06/2020

In the last 13 or so years, astronomers have...

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Locked in a Meteorite, Memories of How Our Sun Behaved in Its Youth

Mywish Anand 17/05/2019

Meteorites are spacefaring museums preserving physical and chemical information...

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Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...

Instruments of the ASTROSAT being inspected at the ISRO Satellite Centre. Credit: ISRO

A New Effort to Bring Astronomy and People Closer

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 29/09/2018

Astronomers have been using Astrosat's instruments to study diverse...

The building housing the SESAME experiment is visible in the foreground. Credit: SESAME

A Beacon of Hope for the Middle East, With Love From Electrons

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/12/2017

The SESAME collaboration has brought together scientists from Bahrain,...

These images from February 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in different wavelengths of light – seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the Sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The images were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption and credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spotted: A New Small Clue for the Very Big, Very Old Puzzle About Our Sun

Sarah Iqbal 25/10/2017

The temperature of the Sun's surface is 5500º C....