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Prof. B. C. Bhatt, Dorje Angchuk, and Man Singh Preamble Under the Himalayan Infrared Optical Telescope (HIROT) project, first team of IIA landed Leh in November 1994 and with initial acclimatization in high altitude and cold weather, this team arrived Hanle in December 1995. We pitched our setup in a mud-hut in the premises of…
Extra Solar planet: The lamp in dark!
Manika SIngla Eight years ago, innocent Ishu was staring at the stars incessantly on a cold winter night. Her mother was sitting beside her on an old charpai [a bed] and sipping hot badam milk. Ishu’s face was gleaming under the full Moon. She suddenly asked, “Ma! What are stars?”. Ma smiled and answered,” My…
`Asimov, Basket Ball, Satellites & Dust’
Prof. Jayant Murthy speaks about his career, life stories, academic training in the United States, research experience with space payloads and UV missions, etc. About the Interviewee 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…
“Errors are beautiful and Gaussian”-Really?
Soumya Sengupta Gaussian or Normal Distribution is the most common of all the probability distributions in the sense that the heights of the boys in a classroom, the errors in any experiments, or the probability of acceptance of your proposal (in your company or in love affairs) all follow the Gaussian distribution. De Moivre first reported…
The Shining Eyes
Anand M N It was a school project on lunar observation that motivated me, an 11th standard boy, to serious star gazing. Till then, I used to see the twinkling stars, but not too keen about knowing them. That project gave me an opportunity to meet amateur astronomers and science enthusiasts outside my school. With…
“Mary’s room and the outside world”
Abstract Art by Maya Prabhakar The knowledge argument (also known as Mary’s room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article “Epiphenomenal Qualia” (1982) and extended in “What MaryDidn’t Know” (1986). The experiment is intended to argue against physicalism—the view that the universe, including all that is…