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Prof. Prajval Shastri speaks on her life journey, memories at IIA, research career, her thoughts on gender disparities in science, science popularization etc. About the Interviewee:Prof. Prajval Shastri is an astrophysicist retired from Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. She specializes in the area of phenomenology of active galaxies driven by supermassive blackholes using multi-wavelength observations…
First Light with UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT
Amit Kumar I would like to share the heart holding experience of my first Space Project, UVIT on ASTROSAT. It was 30th November 2015. We had finished all the major checks on UVIT payload when its doors were closed. Just to remind the readers, ASTROSAT was launched on 29th September 2015 from ISRO space centre…
My Time at IIA
Eswar Reddy Often, people ask me how I entered this field. Let me admit. I chose astronomy as a career, not by design but partly accidentally and partly due to necessity. After our final year M.Sc at Venkateswara University, Tirupati, in 1990, my friends and I stayed back at our hostels for a couple more…
Zeeman Effect
Raveena Khan The Zeeman effect was first discovered by the Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman in 1896 when he placed the flame of a Bunsen burner between the poles of an electromagnet and held a piece of asbestos covered with common salt in the flame. After the electromagnet was turned on, he observed that the two…
