First White Dwarf Pulsar Discovered

Astronomers have identified an elusive white dwarf pulsar -- the first of its kind to be discovered in the universe -- housed in an exotic binary star system 380 light years away from Earth.....

 

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India's Scientists Make Low-cost Optical Telescope For Seeing Distant Quasars, Galaxies

Keeping in mind Prime Minister's call to develop technology in all spheres, Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph. This can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cosmic explosions. ....

 

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Astronomers Find Why Galaxies Become Dormant

A team of astronomers have found the reason why early, massive galaxies turn inactive is because they run out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars. ....

 

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