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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Finds 17 New Exoplanets, Including an Earth-Sized World

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Researchers have discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler mission. Over its original four-year mission, the Kepler satellite looked for planets, especially those that lie in the “Habitable Zones” of their stars, where liquid water could exist on a rocky planet’s surface, the study … Read more

NASA Spots Biggest Explosion Seen in the Universe, Caused by Supermassive Black Hole. Pune Telescope Helped

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NASA has spotted the “biggest explosion seen in the universe”. As per the US space agency, the record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a galaxy cluster said nearly 400 million light years away – which to put it simply, is really far away. The discovery was made by NASA scientists using X-ray … Read more