Exploring From Quarks To Quasars
July is one of the most interesting months for astronomy enthusiasts. From double planetary opposition to a double meteor shower, this month is packed with eye-catching astronomy events. Apart from these celestial events that will …
Talking in schools, meeting children, and answering their questions have been absolutely enriching experiences for me. In a world full of negativity, politics, madmen, and 5G conspiracies, talking to a child about science can do …
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How do you measure your body temperature? The simplest answer is “using a thermometer”. But, is it so in the case of stars as well? The answer is a big NO. As we know, the …
Just as my previous article on facts about Jupiter, today I am going to state some amazing facts about Saturn. Saturn is the second-largest planet in our solar system. It has always fascinated the scientists for …
The annular solar eclipse of 21 June 2020 delighted the astronomers, both professional and amateurs. This was the first solar eclipse of 2020 and came just 15 days after the penumbral lunar eclipse at the …
This article on Bullet cluster is a guest article by Anja Sjöström, an IB diploma student from Switzerland. The Bullet Cluster is the common name given to the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 which was formed …
I will discuss in this short article a concept that caught my attention, and which I find of very big importance nowadays: citizen science. Not only I believe it gives palpable scientific results, which we …
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Though it has been more than 200 years since astrophysics formally began, what we know is just a drop. The vast ocean of knowledge lays undiscovered before us. I thought of ending this series by …
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This is the penultimate article of the Basics of Astrophysics series. In a previous couple of articles, we discussed how to become an astrophysicist and the list of top 10 astrophysicists who changed the course …
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The Basics of Astrophysics series is coming to an end. In the last article, I wrote about how to become an astrophysicist. Today, I am going to share the work of some of the greatest …
In the first 26 articles of the Basics of Astrophysics series, we covered a wide range of topics, from stars to galaxies to black holes to supernovas and so on. I kept the last 4 …
In the series of Basics of Astrophysics, today is our twenty-sixth article based on a very important discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB Radiation) that bragged the 1978 Nobel prize in Physics to its …
“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 …
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 …