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Using data from the Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, NASA refined the planet's dimensions. Its equatorial diameter is now put at 142,976 km (88,841 miles), about 5 miles less than earlier, and its p...
On 1 February 2026 the Sun released an X8.3 flare, the most powerful so far this year. Solar flares are abrupt energy bursts caused by shifts in the Sun's magnetic field and are graded A, B, C, M and X, X being strongest...
Chief Minister M. K. Stalin opened an open-air museum at Keeladi, Sivaganga district, built for ₹24 crore, and laid foundation stones for the Noyyal Museum (Erode), Navai Museum (Mandapam) and Grand Chola Museum (Thanjav...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified MoM-z14, the most distant galaxy yet known, seen as it was about 280 million years after the Big Bang; its light travelled over 13.5 billion years. High nitrogen levels suggest e...
Tamil Nadu's Anna Medal for Gallantry 2026 was awarded posthumously to Peter Johnson (who died saving two youths in the Thamirabharani river) and to firemen V. Sankar, S. Rameshkumar and P. Suresh for a flash-flood rescu...
Ponduru Khadi, a hand-woven cotton fabric from Ponduru village in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh (locally 'Patnulu'), was granted the Geographical Indication tag; it is woven by hand using Hill, Punasa and red cotto...
The Telangana Assembly passed the Telangana Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which replaces an earlier ordinance. Under a 1994 law, people with more than two children could not contest local body polls. The Bill rem...
