Everything you need to know about Mauna Garhwa: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Mauna Garhwa: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
London, May 11 (ANI): For the first time in human history, the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million (ppm).
Washington, April 24 (ANI): A galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed, has been discovered.
Washington, April 5 (ANI): A new study led by a NASA researcher has found that Hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa,.
Chatra (Jharkhand), Mar 24 (ANI): Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday visited Maoists affected Jharkhand's Chatra District.
Washington, March 15 (ANI): A team of international scientists has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond our solar system.
Washington, March 6 (ANI): The surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa could offer clues to the potentially habitable ocean beneath, according to an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology.
Washington, January 16 (ANI): 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures, NASA researchers say.
Washington, January 12 (ANI): Astronomers, including one of Indian origin, have tried to solve the mystery of the curiously dense cloud.
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) India is likely to begin construction of the world's largest solar telescope on the foothills of the Himalayas in Ladakh to understand the fundamental processes taking place on the Sun by year-end, a senior official said Saturday.
Washington, December 22 (ANI): A team of astronomers has confirmed that the chance of asteroid 2011 AG5 impacting Earth in 2040 is no longer a significant risk, prompting a collective sigh-of-relief.
Washington, December 5 (ANI): Astronomers have combined the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes and characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the universe.
Washington, November 14(ANI): A Lowell astronomer and her collaborators have identified 144 young targets for exoplanet searches, with 20 very strong candidates.
Washington, October 24 (ANI): NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the centre of our galaxy.
Washington, October 17 (ANI): Astronomers at the Institute for Astronomy (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to map collisions of giant galaxy clusters in three dimensions, by combining observations from Mauna Kea with data taken by telescopes in space.
London, October 16 (ANI): A planet with four suns has been discovered by volunteers from the planethunters.org citizen science project.
Washington, August 31(ANI): An international research team made use of a dying star's fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant.
Washington, July 19 (IANS) US astrophysicists have detected what could be the first exoplanet, only two-thirds the size of Earth but without an atmosphere, located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33 light-years away.
London, July 19 (ANI): Astronomers have for the first time observed a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed.
Washington, June 23 (ANI): A loose group of stars that was known for over 180 years but never before studied in detail has been discovered to be an important new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun, and in the search for planets like Earth.
Washington, June 22 (ANI): The University of Hawaii has released a remarkable first infrared astronomy image obtained using its new 16-megapixel HAWAII 4RG-15 (H4RG-15) image sensor on the UH 2.2-meter (88-inch) telescope on Mauna Kea.
Washington, June 14 (ANI): Earlier it was thought the small worlds like Earth form mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon.
London, June 12 (ANI): A team of Japanese astronomers in Hawaii claim to have found the oldest galaxy, a discovery that is competing with other "earliest galaxy" findings.
Garhwa (Jharkhand), June 9 (ANI): Security forces have rebuilt a police post here, with the twin objective of combating left wing extremism and bridging the gap between villagers and security personnel.
Washington, May 11 (ANI): Latest findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have laid the groundwork for the first geological overview of asteroid Vesta and confirmed the existence of not one but two giant impact basins in its southern hemisphere.
Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, which will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied before.
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): 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.
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): 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.
Palamu, Jan 25 (ANI): Maoists have released three persons, including a government official, who had been held hostage for over 72 hours after the killing of 15 policemen in a landmine blast in Jharkhand's Garhwa region on Tuesday.
Garhwa (Jharkhand), Jan 21 (ANI): At least 13 policemen were killed and two others got injured when suspected Maoists blew up their vehicle in the jungles of Bariganwa in Jharkhand's Garhwa District on Saturday.
London, Jan 19 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a faint "satellite galaxy" 10 billion light years from Earth, and it is believed to be the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance.
London, Jan 19 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a faint "satellite galaxy" 10 billion light years from Earth, and it is believed to be the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance.
London, Jan 12 (ANI): India and China plan to join as partners in the construction of a Hawaii telescope, which would be the world's largest when it is built later this decade.
Washington, Jan 5 (ANI): The first four exoplanets of 2012 have been spotted orbiting four distant stars merely four days into the New Year.
Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate.
Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): Astronomers have for the first time spotted a disk of gas and dust around a Sun-like star that shows spiral-arm-like structures.
Garhwa (Jharkhand), Oct 18 (ANI): Security forces busted a Maoist camp and recovered huge cache of ammunition in near Jharkhand's Garhwa District.
Washington, August 11 (ANI): The volcanic recycling of the Earth's crust that sinks deep into the earth due to the movement of tectonic plates happens much faster than scientists had previously thought, a new research has found.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has discovered a long-hidden companion of the Earth - the first Trojan asteroid circling the sun in the Earth's orbit.
Washington, May 27 (ANI): Astronomers in Hawaii have collected unprecedented details from the life of an early galaxy, thanks to an unusually lucid gravitational lens coupled with the powerful 10-meter Keck II Telescope on Mauna Kea.
Washington, April 13 (ANI): Using NASA telescopes, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy with stars that began forming just 200 million years after the big bang.
Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui has created a new record, discovering 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29.
Garhwa, Feb 14 (ANI): Maoists abducted a railway station master and four members of a family in two separate incidents in Jharkhand's Garhwa District on Sunday.
Garhwa (Jharkhand), Feb 12(ANI): A flower cultivator in Jharkhand's Garhwa district has come up with many flower varieties in his garden, giving new dimensions to floriculture in the state.
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): NASA telescopes have identified a burgeoning galactic metropolis-the most distant known in the early universe.
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have found in space a chunk that was once a part of the third-largest asteroid.
Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): Scientists from the Tel Aviv University have determined that the era of first fast growth of the most massive black holes occurred when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old - not two to four billion years old as popularly thought.
Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): Scientists from the Tel Aviv University have determined that the era of first fast growth of the most massive black holes occurred when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old - not two to four billion years old as popularly thought.
Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): New NASA images show that one of Jupiter's dark brown stripes that 'disappeared' last spring is now showing signs of a comeback.
Washington, Oct 2 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered a new planet that could have water on its surface, and therefore could support life.
Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered a new planet that could have water on its surface, and therefore could support life.
Washington, Sept 30 (ANI): A team of astronomers that includes the University of Hawaii's Nader Haghighipour has declared the discovery of a new planet that could have water on its surface.
New Delhi, Aug.11 (ANI): In a bid to address critical gaps in development in the Naxal affected states' focus districts, the Planning Commission of India has initiated the process of preparation of Integrated Action Plan (IAPs) and the Government allocated Rs. 4938.96 crore under nine flagship schemes to Jharkhand for 11 focus districts in 2009-10.
New Delhi, Aug.11 (ANI): In a bid to address critical gaps in development in the Naxal affected states' focus districts, the Planning Commission of India has initiated the process of preparation of Integrated Action Plan (IAPs).
Garhwa (Jharkhand), June 30 (ANI): Suspected Maoists killed a local Congress leader in Jharkhand's Garhwa District early on Wednesday morning.
Hawaii, June 26 (ANI): Indian astronomers will join a project to build the Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Washington, June 11 (ANI): Scientists have observed, for the first time ever, the processes that give rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems.
Ranchi (Jharkhand), Apr 23 (ANI): Suspected Maoists have killed three villagers in separate incidents in Jharkhand.
Sydney, March 29 (ANI): A team of astronomers has detected an extraterrestrial cyclone at Neptune's south pole, which may improve our understanding of the violent weather conditions that rage across the distant planet and its internal structure.
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): NASA astronomers have successfully demonstrated that little ground-based telescopes can also detect Earth-like planets around other stars.
Washington, January 28 (ANI): Observations at the Gemini Observatory are providing convincing new evidence that the most massive stars may be born in much the same manner as lightweights like our Sun.
Washington, January 26 (ANI): NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky in infrared light.
Washington, January 14 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.
Washington, January 8 (ANI): A team of astronomers, using the Keck Observatory, has discovered the second smallest exoplanet, which is only four times the mass of Earth.
Ranchi, Dec 18 (ANI): Over 35 per cent voting has been recorded in the fifth and final phase of assembly elections in Jharkhand so far.
Washington, December 9 (ANI): An international research team has taken a deep look into the shape and geometry of the accreting material around the black hole in nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).
Washington, December 8 (ANI): Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758, which at a temperature of around 330 degrees Celsius, is the coldest companion of a Sun-like star ever to be directly imaged.
London, December 3 (ANI): Astronomers have witnessed the biggest star explosion yet, that is thought to have generated more than 50 Suns' worth (1032 kilograms) of different elements, which may one day go on to make new solar systems.
Washington, October 8 (ANI): There is some good news and some bad news for doomsday pundits, in the sense that the chances of asteroid Apophis colliding with Earth in 2036 has been recuded, but a new impact possibility of the same asteroid has come up in the year 2068.
Washington, September 17 (ANI): In high-resolution images of comet Holmes, which erupted in 2007, astronomers have detected multiple "mini comets" bursting out at 451 kilometers an hour, which is the largest known cometary outburst in history.
Washington, September 3 (ANI): A team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii has discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found.
Washington, August 13 (ANI): A new research has discovered significant cloud formation within the tropical zone near the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which is evidence that the parched, dry desert of the natural satellite can support large-scale storms.
Washington, July 22 (ANI): The board of directors of the TMT Observatory Corporation has selected Mauna Kea as the preferred site for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which will be the most capable and advanced telescope ever constructed.
Washington, July 21 (ANI): Scientists have found evidence in the form of a new dark "scar" which indicates that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Washington, July 2 (ANI): Two University of Hawaii astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system, which makes them solar systems in the making.
Washington, July 2 (ANI): Two University of Hawaii astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system, which makes them solar systems in the making.
Washington, June 13 (ANI): Astronomers have announced the discovery of new tidal debris stripped away from colliding galaxies.
London, June 10 (ANI): Astronomers have detected evidence of a new clutch of tiny, dense galaxies, dubbed 'cosmic cannonballs', which thrived in the early Universe, and are nowhere to be seen today.
London, June 8 (ANI): A research team has found that the Antarctic plateau offers world-beating atmospheric conditions to view possibly the clearest skies on Earth.
Jharkhand, May 24 (ANI): An orphan, Rinkita, could never have thought that she would enjoy marital bliss. But in stepped the government of Jharkhand and organised her wedding through a unique scheme.
London, April 28 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted the most distant object yet confirmed in the universe, which is a self-destructing star that exploded 13.1 billion light years from Earth.
Washington, April 17 (ANI): By combining information from three different telescopes, scientists are learning what happens when some of the largest galaxy clusters in the Universe collide with each other in a cosmic free-for-all.
London, April 3 (ANI): In a live 24-hour webcast today, anyone on the Internet will get a unique opportunity to explore some of the most advanced astronomical observatories both on and off the planet, as part of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) initiative 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'.
Sydney, March 25 (IANS) Astronomers have located a galactic freak, an extremely rare ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, that could be the missing link in understanding how galaxies and their clusters evolve.
Washington, March 24 (ANI): Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University have observed the largest exploding star yet seen, which is the size of 50 suns.
Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): In a new research, scientists are quantifying landscape-scale changes occurring to Hawaii's Big Island tropical forests using lasers deployed on airplanes.
Sydney, Jan 5 (ANI): Astronomers are using what they say is the "world's biggest laser pointer" to unravel the mystery behind the birth and death of stars.
Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): Astronomers have used an ultra sensitive camera to measure the precise size of a planet around a distant star, and determine that it is one of the most densest planets in the known Universe.
Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Astronomers have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star.
Toronto, Nov 14 (IANS) In one of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy, Canadian, American and British astronomers have captured the images of another solar system for the first time.
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations will test a robot designed for lunar prospecting, on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) A robot designed for lunar prospecting will be tested on the cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is also Hawaii's highest mountain.
Washington, Oct 4 (ANI): A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and MIT astronomers, using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, has found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars.
Washington, Oct 4 (ANI): A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and MIT astronomers, using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, has found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars.
Washington, Sept.15 (ANI): Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planetround a normal star similar to the Sun.
Washington, September 4 (ANI): A new research is aiming to unmask some Near Earth Objects (NEOs), which are comets posing as asteroids.
Washington, August 15 (ANI): A team of geologists have taken meteorological balloons to the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii to make the first on-location measurements of volcanic gases as they actually spew from the mouth of the volcano.
Washington, July 24 (ANI): Astronomers have used a infrared filter with large telescopes to get a clean view of the scattered light coming from the disks surrounding black holes.
Washington, July 11 (ANI): Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine - a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
Washington, July 11 (ANI): Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine - a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
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