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Prof. Vinod Krishan (formerly Senior Professor, IIA) has written a book on Plasmas: The First State of Matter and Cambridge University Press has published the book recently.   Read more  

Inquiries of Heaven is the official newspaper of the IAU General Assembly 2012 published by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics with collaboration of China Features, Amateur Astronomer, Chinese National Astronomy. In order to access the newspaper please follow the link below,  www.astronomy2012.org/ih

Discover is hosting the Comet ISON Photo Contest, together with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences, and Astronomy magazine.   The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. You can submit images online at www.nsf.gov/comet beginning October 15, 2013, through January 15, 2014. Judges will consider images in three categories; in…

Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…

Dear Colleagues, IOP Publishing congratulates scientists Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura on becoming the latest Nobel prize laureates for their invention of “efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.     ” In recognition of Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura’s landmark achievements, we are making a collection of breakthrough…

New chief for astrophysics institute DHNS, Bengaluru, Oct 16 2019, 00:45am ISTupdated: Oct 16 2019, 02:59am IST Annapurni, S.   Noted scientist Prof Annapurni Subramaniam on Tuesday took over as the Director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), a premier national research institute in astrophysics. The autonomous research institute under the administrative control…