Chien Shiung Wu: The First Lady Of Physics
Whenever it comes to talking about women in science, the only sure shot names that hit our mind are those of Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Maria Mayer, etc.. And, we generally fail to …
Radio Astronomy And The Search For Alien Life
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” This quote by Isaac Newton perfectly describes the theme of today’s article. In the second chapter of this series, we studied the …
An Indian Born Scientist Creates Bose-Einstein Condensates At Home
Recently Dr. Armruta Gadge proved the Einstein-Bose prediction, working remotely from her home. She used the University of Sussex facility to create the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Both her achievement and her scientific work are a …
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The Mystery Of Dark Matter
We are in the final phase of our Basics of Astrophysics series. We have come a long way. We started by answering the question, what is astrophysics? Then, we learned some basics such as the …
Astronomical Catalogues: From Well Known To Lesser Know
This has been an article I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. Hopefully, a lot of you will find it interesting, although it will be more useful to amateur astronomers and more advanced …
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Gravitational Waves: The Ripples In Space-time
In 2015, when LIGO detected gravitational waves directly for the first time, it was nothing less than a milestone in the history of physics. Einstein’s predictions were proved true, which was a big deal in …
The First Image That Hubble Sent Back From Space Embarrassed Everyone
As we just passed Hubble’s 30th birthday, I think it is more than necessary to take a step back and look at its beginnings. How did it become one of the most important realizations of …
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Quasars: The Most Powerful Objects In The Universe
Going by the dictionary definition, a quasar is a massive and extremely remote celestial object, which emits exceptionally large amounts of energy. A quasar typically has a star-like image in a telescope. But, contrary to …
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ATLAS – The Largest Particle Detector In The World
This article on the ATLAS experiment at CERN is a guest article by Anja Sjöström, an IB diploma student from Switzerland. The ATLAS Experiment, an acronym for A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS, is one of the …
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An Introduction To Galaxies And Their Interactions
Having done a couple of research projects on galaxies, I was most excited about this article and here it is! From our school days itself, we know that we live on Earth, which lies in …
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The Woman Who Wrote The ‘Most Brilliant Ph.D. Thesis In Astronomy’
I read a fair amount of biographical works about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin lately, and I made myself familiar with her scientific work too. Of course, I encountered plenty of her ideas during my scientific quest, but …
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Nebulae And Their Types
Nature never fails to astonish us with its beauty and one such beautiful creation of nature is a nebula. So, in today’s article of the Basics Astrophysics series, we will delve into the beauty and types …
Why Are The Iconic Hubble Images Originally Black And White?
This article on Hubble images is a guest article by Vishnu Unni. C, a research trainee in optics at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA). If you are a space enthusiast, you must be in …
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Supernovae And Their Types
Whenever we look at the night sky, all the stars appear alike, and everything seems very calm and peaceful. But wait! this is not the exact picture of what lies and what is happening in …