Priya Goyal This Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to live in a virtual world, where many social activities like teaching, conference presentations, dance training, karate classes (from my personal list), etc. are happening online. While participating in one of these, I am sure that at least once we all would have got confused due to…
Bhoomika About the authorBhoomika is a Senior Research Fellow at IIA.
Fazlu Rahman The journey started around 7 PM CET from the Trento station. The white Volvo bus began ascending the curly routes and curvy paths, while we were busy making new friends. We were around fifty students, doing masters and PhD in different parts of the globe, came to attend the 13th version of Tonale…
Anirban Bhowmick ‘Bhaiyya! Do hydrogen-deficient stars really exist?’ asked Rony with amazement. ‘Yes! Not only do they exist, but they also have different types’ explained Ani. R: ‘Unbelievable! I always thought stars shine due to nuclear fusion of hydrogen and hence they are hydrogen-rich!’ A: ‘It’s not just you, even the astronomers were not ready…
Snehalata Sahu Have you ever heard of a vampire-like star existing in our Universe? If not, then you are missing the story of one of the most exciting types of stars, known as “Blue Straggler Stars” (BSSs). They are called so because they appear blue in color and straggle or lag in age behind their ancient neighbors, which…
Man had been living under the mercy of nature from the days of folklore…
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…
