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The National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent US government agency responsible to promote science and engineering - is looking for partners to take over its share of operations for 10 telescopes.
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Researchers have shed light on formerly unknown details about renowned French Impressionist Claude Monet`s 1883 painting, titled `Etretat: Sunset`, of the Normandy coast, including the fact that it was painted on Feb. 5, 1883 at 4:53 p.m.
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In a major new survey of the early universe conducted from the NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the most distant, thus the earliest galaxy ever detected.
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Astronomers have found the most distant galaxy yet, a discovery that pushes back scientists` view of the universe to about 700 million years after it is thought to have come into existence.
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The US space agency has vowed to reconsider the applications of Chinese scientists who were denied access to a NASA conference on security grounds, sparking a boycott by leading American astronomers.
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Four astronomers of the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bangalore participated in building a new radio telescope in Australia to track and receive signals from distant stars and galaxies.
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Washington: Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of Magellanic Stream, a ribbon of gas stretching almost halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.
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Berlin: An international team of astronomers is challenging the prevalent theory on how the lives of most stars end, the European Southern Observatory, or ESO, said.
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Astronomers are asking members of the public to help them search for "space warps."
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Scientists have found the first group of galaxies that is just like ours, a rare sight in the local universe.
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ESA`s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping an eye on space hazards.
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Two amateur British astronomers say they have discovered a new planet which they want to be named after them.
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