Concrete roads for rural clusters in next 5 yrs: Nitish

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 17:29

Concrete roads would be built to link rural clusters having population of 250 or above in the next five years, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said.

Galaxy clusters may solve `mystery of dark energy`

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 18:56

New work by a team of astronomers that has yielded exquisitely precise distances of a large sample of clusters may lead to breakthroughs in understanding the expansion history of our Universe and Dark Energy.

`Hot` gas bridge connecting pair of galaxy clusters spotted

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 18:33

A bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space has been detected for the first time using ESA’s Planck space telescope.

NASA Hubble spots star clusters on collision course

Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012, 19:10

Astronomers have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging.

Dark matter bridge between galaxy clusters found

Last Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 14:20

Astrophysicists have for the first time detected the skeleton of dark matter that undergirds the cosmic web of matter in the universe.

China lays claim to `biggest’ catalogue of galaxy clusters

Last Updated: Monday, April 2, 2012, 15:31

Galaxy clusters are known as the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe.

Distant young galaxy cluster `discovered`

Last Updated: Friday, March 9, 2012, 12:49

Planetary scientists claim to have discovered a distant young galaxy cluster located 10.5 billion light years away from Milky Way.

Galactic collision creates ‘puzzling’ dark matter core

Last Updated: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 19:03

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope have spotted what appears to be a tuft of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies.

Dark matter could be more mundane than thought

Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 20:48

Several tiny stars in globular clusters could account for mysterious dark matter, which is believed to constitute over 80 per cent of the universe’s matter, a new study has revealed.

Assocham proposes to set up 14 industrial clusters in Bihar

Last Updated: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 18:03

Assocham General Secretary D S Rawat said that proposed clusters will provide jobs to 6 lakh people.

Gujarat acts on critically polluted clusters

Last Updated: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:49

After the state pollution control board declared eight clusters of Gujarat as critically polluted, an action plan has been rolled out to ensure that industrial units in these areas comply with the laid down norms.