To add to his numerous other discoveries, here is a new Supernova to Vishnu’s credit!! This is a very bright one! .. 14.3 mag. This is roughly the brightness of Pluto(I mean the apparent brightness, as seen from earth) Such bright ones are pretty rare. Here is the page from Smithsonian which lists recent supernova [...]
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Now, it is a supernova for Vishnu!
Posted in Astronomy on January 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
24 asteroids and counting…
Posted in Astronomy on January 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Amateur Astronomers are a rare breed in India. This might be due to a variety of reasons. The primary reason is probably the reasonable financial commitment involved in this hobby. Ofcourse, small pockets of enthusiastic amateurs exist. But when compared with countries like the US, the numbers here are much lesser. There aren’t many telescope [...]
GMRT.. recent stuff.
Posted in Astronomy, Physics on November 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t a post explaining GMRT to everyone (like my SDSC post). I would love to do it.. but even a reasonable explanation will take a long time to compile. Here , I have just collected a few media reports reg GMRT:
I came across this article on TIFR and its outposts in the latest [...]
2009 – International Year of Astronomy ?
Posted in Astronomy on October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
[via Astro Blog ]
Close on the heels of the International Year of Physics, we could possibly have the International Year of Astronomy, to mark the 400th anniversary of the use of an astronomical telescope(ofcourse, by Galileo). This would require the approval of the UN General Assembly. The Royal Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union [...]
Hoax Alert!
Posted in Astronomy, Science on August 13, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Have you heard of Mars coming close this August?.. and looking as big as the moon? Beware!.. the email that told you this is full of rubbish. Though this is a very old ‘forward’.. it seems to have gained in popularity in the recent times..at least with people around me. There are many out there [...]
So .. Do we have a tenth planet?
Posted in Astronomy, Science on August 2, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
A ‘yes’ would truly seem epoch making. But in reality .. this really isn’t a question of scientific worth. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jup and Saturn were known for a long time. Hershel discovered Uranus in the 1700s, JG Galle discovered Neptune after a few had predicted the existence of such a planet thro calculations and [...]
