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Attaché for Sciences and Higher Education, French Embassy in India, visited Kodaikanal Solar Observatory Library.

Dr. François-Xavier Mortreuil, Attaché for Sciences and Higher Education, French Embassy in India, visited the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory Library on 2023 September 22. He had gone through documents including the 19th-century Annales de l’Observatoire de Paris, the 20th-century Annales de l’Observatoire de Bordeaux, and the unique Spots Faculae Prominences of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, among other…

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Take a look at some of the recent newspaper clippings on the ADITYA L1 Mission that have been uploaded to the IIA Repository

Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is located roughly 1.5 million km from Earth. On September 2, 2023, at 11.50 hrs, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) successfully launched the Aditya-L1 spacecraft from the Second Launch Pad of…

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Kodaikanal Solar Observatory celebrated IIA Founder’s Day

IIA celebrates the birth anniversary of our founder director, Prof. M. K. Vainu Bappu, as Founder’s Day on August 10th every year. This year also, we celebrated the same in grand. IIA staff, outsource staff members, trainees, and students participated in the Founder’s Day meeting held at KSO Library on August 10, 2023, at 10.30…

The Indian Eclipse Expedition, 1922: records from IIA Archives

The scientific community is commemorating the Centenary celebration of the 1922 Indian expedition to Wallal, Australia, to observe a solar eclipse. Albert Einstein published his Theory of Relativity, arguing that gravitational objects with gravitational influence warped spacetime around them. On September 1922, a group of renowned astronomers conducted an expedition on a remote shore in…

Grammarly subscription renewed through National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC)

We are delighted to inform you that the Grammarly subscription process has switched from the institute-level subscription to the National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC). Thus, Grammarly (info@em.grammarly.com) sent an email to all IIA Grammarly users with the subject line: You’re invited to join the National Knowledge Resource Consortium on Grammarly. Existing Grammarly users are requested…

How To Know If You Are Stuck In The “miRЯor universe”?

In the previous article, we figured out a way to know if we are in the real universe or stuck in the mirror universe. Wu’s experiment, which involved radioactive decay of Cobalt atoms (cooled) placed in a magnetic field, came to our rescue. This discovery of weak forces violating parity symmetry was shocking to many…