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Giant 'dying star' presents an image of the Sun's future – See pics

Images captured using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescopes showed that the star W Hydrae, which is at a distance of 320 light years in the constellation of Hydra, is a giant with a diameter twice the size of Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Nov 08, 2017, 10:25 AM IST

ALMA discovers a growing supermassive black hole in distant galaxy

Scientists with the help of ALMA telescope in Chile have spotted a dense and super massive black hole in the centre of the galaxy NGC 1377. The distant galaxy is located 70-million light years away from our planet Earth in the direction to the constellation Eridanus the River.

Jul 05, 2016, 22:36 PM IST