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The Current13:00Turning deep space data into musicMusic can often transport you to another time and place. But now a Montreal composer is bringing listeners far out into the cosmos with a piece of music created from NASA's data on the Milky…

Navi Mumbai, the city where 12 people died due to sunstroke after attending an award function, has no observatory of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on the basis of which local weather alerts can be issued. On the Maharashtra…

BEIRUT: An Israeli missile strike early Sunday killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighbourhood home to much of Syria's security apparatus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights said the strike,…

Some of the largest and most sophisticated telescopes ever made are under construction at the Simons Observatory in Northern Chile. They are designed to measure cosmic microwave background -- electromagnetic radiation left over from the…

WASHINGTON: Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way's centre, some are fierce - guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright…

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Issued on: 01/11/2022 - 11:55 The aftermath of a large star’s explosive death is seen in an image released on Monday by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense…

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By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the most…

Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers' hearts miss a beat. We are talking about historical photographic…