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  • Astrophotography: Its contribution in Astronomical discoveries
    Astrophotography has played a significant role in astronomical discoveries and observations. The use of photography in astronomy dates back to the 19th century. Since then, advancements in technology have allowed for the capture of increasingly detailed and accurate images of celestial objects. Astrophotography has been used to discover and study … Read more
  • Search For Life On Other Planets
    Is there life on other planets? One of the oldest and most popular question everyone asks whenever a discussion happen around astronomy. Although we generally focus on discussing about possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligent life, finding just ‘life’ or just their traces (like fossils), is more realistic in near future. Discovering … Read more
  • Lucy: Mission to the Trojan Asteroids – Solar System Fossils
    Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year mission to eight different asteroids, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans. What are Trojan asteroids? For any given Two body system in space (both bodies are having mass) orbiting each other, there exist 5 points (called … Read more
  • Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Story until the GW150914 Observation
    Notes from Lecture ‘First five years of Gravitational wave astronomy’ by Prof. Archana Pai, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay. World Space Week, Webinar organized by National Space Society(USA)-Mumbai. A broad overview Gravitational-Wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy. A distant cousin, we can say, of optical (electromagnetic-wave) astronomy. … Read more

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