Even after the decline of the golden period of the Gupta empire, great works of art, architecture and culture continued to flourish at four corners of India from the sixth century till the thirteenth century when invaders consolidated their rule on the holy land and stopped the festival of indigenous arts and cultural activities
The team also established that the gas pressure in the interplanetary space in cycle 24 was only 40 per cent of the pressure in cycle 23.
The telescope, which comes with a Crayford focuser, and 1650 mm focal length, also boasts of a 355 mm optical diameter mirror which is the second largest among the IITs, after Kanpur.
Richard de Grijs, professor, Macquarie University, Australia, talks about the benefits for Indian students in considering a major in astronomy and astrophysics.
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Astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy, known as hypervelocity stars, are in fact runaways from a…
As one of Shakespeare’s characters feels, life is a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. We…
Astronomers have spotted a rare pulsating star which is expanding and contracting in three different directions simultaneously. It is situated…
