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Radio astronomers use a dance of three exotic stars to test univer
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bonn [Germany], June 11 (ANI): An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn determined with extremely high precision that gravity causes neutron stars and white dwarf stars to fall with equal accelerations.
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitatio
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detec
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There might be Earth-like planets in the universe
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 20 (ANI): There's no denying the fact that Earth is the only habitable planet and one of its kind, but according to new evidence there may be numerous Earth-like planets in the universe!
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