From Chandigarh, the telescope consignment was airlifted to Leh by IL76 on two trips during the first week of August 2000. The Air Force 21 Wing at Leh and the Indian Army 14 Corp. helped IIA to handle and download the big bulky and oversized boxes of telescope and accessories.
On the other hand, the facilities provided by IIA were well equipped for research. We were given a computer system with internet as soon as we joined, which I think may not be the case everywhere.
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…
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…
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 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…
In an effort to improve the collection at IIA library, we have received nine books on approval from the vendors. All IIA Library users are requested to visit and check these books. Post your suggestions here. The list of the books are given below. Suggested books will be scrutinized by a library committee for their relevance,…
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…
Varun Kumar, Project Engineer-I (ADITYA-L1) After joining IIA for Integrated M.Tech – PhD course in July 2013, I and my four other batchmates left for Kolkata for mandatory one-year course work at the University of Calcutta.During my stay at Kolkata, the IIA outreach photos uploaded on social media by our seniorsattracted me towards IIA outreach….
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…
Prof. Jayant Murthy speaks about his career, life stories and academic training in the United States, research experience with space payloads and UV missions, etc. Prof. Jayant Murthy obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1987. He went to NASA/GSFC for two years as a NAS/NRC Research Associate and then back to JHU as…
