Astrophysics

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has established a new branch office of its Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) in India. This office is part of a global network working for the development of astronomy education at the school…
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A team of Indian astronomers has evolved\ a new method to understand the atmosphere of extrasolar planets. They have shown that the planets going around stars other than the Sun can also be studied by observing the polarisation of light and…
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An international team of astronomers has carried out an extensive new survey of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which has revealed previously unseen signatures with unprecedented sensitivity and details that hint at how stars form and die,…
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Indian Scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cosmic…
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Once a lifetime opportunity:  About 30 minutes after the local sunset, in the southwestern direction, low in the sky, two giant gas plants, Saturn and Jupiter will appear so close that we will not be able to distinguish them apart. The last…
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