A new multimillion-rand telescope in the Karoo will offer astronomers an unprecedented view of the stars. The MeerLICHT instrument in Sutherland will be specifically linked to the MeerKAT radio telescope array near Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. Unlike its bigger brother SALT (Southern African Large Telescope), the MeerLICHT is meant …
It was snap, crackle and pop in the early days of the universe. You would not want to live there. Astronomers said Tuesday that they had smashed the long-distance record in astronomy when they recorded an explosion, probably a massive early star, that lived and died 13 billion years ago, …
AHMEDABAD: Global climatic changes are affecting local weather and climatic conditions, observed Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist from University of Wisconsin, US, during a popular science lecture organised at Gujarat Science City on Tuesday. On combating extreme conditions of ongoing climatic changes, Limaye said, "We need carbon dioxide measurement systems to …
Set To Be Launched In 2017, A Craft With 15Inch Heat Shield Will Come Within 20M Miles Of Solar Surface London: For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from Nasa, is planning to send two space missions …
AHMEDABAD: The sun is 3,30,330 times larger than the earth! The sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years and it takes only eight minutes for sunlight to travel from to earth. These and many more exciting facts about sun were explored and shared by students and visitors …
Washington: Two colossal black holes appear to be orbiting one another in sort of a cosmic minuet at the center of a faraway galaxy formed when two separate galaxies collided, US astronomers said on Wednesday. These two so-called supermassive black holes, which are celestial objects with enormous gravitational pull, are …
KOLLAM: Kollam is getting ready to have a full-fledged observatory with international standards, in the International Year of Astronomy (2009). It will be set up at the initiative of the All-Kerala Astro Sciences Society (AKAS). Former Vice-Chancellor of Kozhikode University and renowned astrophysics teacher G.K.Sasidharan, who is also the founder-president …
Rock As Big As 10-Storey Building Comes Within 72,000Km Paris: An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday. The space rock, the size of a …
Nasa Spacecraft To Search For Life Outside The Solar System Washington: Nasa is preparing to launch next month the Kepler spacecraft with a new space telescope that for the first time will be capable of detecting Earth-like planets outside our solar system, project managers said. Kepler is scheduled for launch …
A European satellite has discovered the smallest planet outside of our solar system, which is twice as large as earth. The planet is believed to be composed of rock and water, and takes 20 hours to orbit its host star, the shortest orbital period of all exoplanets found so far. …
