Washington, Mar 22 (ANI): University of Colorado Boulder astronomers have claimed that "sideline quasars" teamed up with one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe 11 billion years ago in order to prevent small galaxy formation.

Washington, February 6(ANI): The newly discovered comet ISON could give sky watchers one of the brightest shows ever in the night sky during its close-up with the Sun beginning November 2013, according to researchers.

Washington, January 17 (ANI): Jupiter, the second-brightest planet, will be appearing less than a finger-width from the Moon throughout North America on January 21, 2013.

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): A large asteroid belt is said to have been discovered around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies.

Johannesburg, Dec. 21 (ANI): Adele fended off competition from Swedish DJ Avicii and Justin Bieber to emerge as the "brightest star" of her generation in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Music list.

Washington, December 1 (ANI): Zebrafish males and females both perform colourful courtship displays, researchers say.

Washington, October 24 (ANI): Observation of one of the most distant and brightest quasars in the universe has surprised Hubble astronomers as they did not see the underlying host galaxy of stars feeding it.

London, October 2 (ANI): Astronomers, including one of Indian origin, gave said that a newly-discovered comet could become one of the brightest lights in the sky - even outshining the Moon.

London, September 28 (ANI): The supernova explosion of the year 1006 - the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history - was probably caused by the merger of two white dwarf stars, scientists have found.

Islamabad, Aug 19 (ANI): One of Pakistan's brightest Under-19 talents, Mohammad Nawaz, who will be battling it out against India in the U-19 World Cup quarter final in Townsville, Australia on Monday, has said he is positive about winning against the rival country.

Washington, July 27 (ANI): Using data from ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed that the hottest and brightest stars, which are known as O stars, are often found in close pairs.

London, May 9 (ANI): Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope has captured hundreds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), flashes of light that, for only a few seconds or minutes, are the brightest objects in the Universe.

Washington, April 29 (ANI): This week, step outside any night about an hour after sunset and you will get to see the brilliant planet Venus at the western sky.

Washington, April 18 (ANI): NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore have released a new image of 30 Doradus, a star-forming complex located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula, in celebration of Hubble Space Telescope's 22nd anniversary.

London, Mar 21 (ANI): Tamara Ecclestone and Holly Valance opted for extremely garish dresses at the dinner and auction sponsored by the company that makes the ornate Faberge eggs.

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): Scientists working with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a uniquely close-up look at the brightest gravitationally magnified galaxy yet discovered.

Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a powerful outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, which was initially spotted on Earth nearly 170 years ago.

Washington, Feb 3 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant "magnified" galaxy discovered yet in the universe.

Raipur, Jan 3 (ANI): Humanity, harmony, good governance are ideals a democratic nation aspires to. As the world's largest democracy, India is no exception. Her lawmakers and administrators, often the brightest of her citizens, vow to serve the people and govern them with integrity.

Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate.

London, Dec 16 (ANI): Some of the brightest known explosions in the universe, type 1a supernovae, are triggered by ancient, dense stars called white dwarfs, a new study has revealed.

Washington, Dec 6 (ANI): Scientists have for the first time discovered the fastest-rotating massive star, which spins at the speed of 600 kilometers per second at the equator and could be the progenitor of some of the brightest explosions in the universe: gamma-ray bursts.

London, Dec 2 (ANI): The whole batch of 72 students from Oprah Winfrey's South African school have graduated and the brightest are off to various universities in the U.S.

Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Astronomers have identified a pair of young galaxies with surprising chemical ingredients in the early Universe following a Gamma-ray burst - brightest explosions in space.

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Scientists have for the first time captured images of one of the brightest stars in the infrared sky surrounded by a huge dusty double shell - thanks to the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT).