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Astrophotography For Beginners
The night sky can be considered as one of the most magnificent spectacles that we can experience every night. The twinkling stars, the bright moon and the cold yet exciting...
Shriram Joshi
08 Mar 2021
Messier 45: Pleiades
The Pleiades star cluster is also known as the Seven Sisters or M45. It is visible from virtually every part of the globe. We can see it from as far...
Ashutosh Gupta
08 Feb 2021
Messier 97: Owl Nebula
The Owl Nebula, also known as Messier 97 (M97), is a planetary nebula located in Ursa Major. The nebula lies at an approximate distance of 2,030 light years from Earth....
Gayatri
25 Jan 2021
Eagle Nebula
SEDS Celestia presents to you this amazing article about one of the most beautiful nebula present in this universe, Eagle Nebula. This articles talks in depth about interesting facts, science...
Afraj Shaikh
02 Dec 2020
Messier 44
Messier 44, or NGC 2632 is more commonly known as Praesepe or the Beehive Cluster. It is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, and is one of the...
Abdul Jawad Khan
09 Nov 2020
M51: Whirlpool and Co.
The Whirlpool galaxy is a beautiful spiral galaxy, tagged as “grand-design” due to its prominent and well-defined spiral arms. This bright, easy-to-locate spot is part of the Canes Venatici constellation....
Aeishna Khaund
26 Oct 2020
M104 Sombrero Galaxy
Introduction
Bhuvan S V
12 Oct 2020
Dummy's Guide To Celestia Observations
If you are in the habit of taking a leisurely stroll past the Cricket Grounds after dinner, you know that sometimes, vague shapes can be seen moving around at the...
Aeishna Khaund
03 Aug 2020
Understanding Telescopes and Binoculars - Part3
Co-ordinate Systems
Avdhoot Bhandare
27 Jul 2020
International Space Station: Is it really worth it?
Ashutosh Gupta
29 Jun 2020
Solar Eclipse 101
“If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood” -Wendy Mass
Kaustubh Murudkar
22 Jun 2020
Persieds Meteor Shower 2020
Yashraj Patil
20 Jun 2020
Astronomy In Ancient India
Sanika Chepe
15 Jun 2020
Understanding Telescopes and Binoculars - Part2
Avdhoot Bhandare
08 Jun 2020
Understanding Telescopes and Binoculars
Avdhoot Bhandare
01 Jun 2020
“What to expect when a giant cloud of gas collides with your galaxy?”
Shounak Bhattacharya
25 May 2020
The Mythology of Planets
Avdhoot Bhandare
11 May 2020
What is an Exoplanet?
Any planet beyond our solar system is called an exoplanet. They are planets orbiting other stars, similar to how all the planets in the Solar System orbit about the Sun....
Sanika Chepe, Core, SEDS Celestia
27 Apr 2020
CHANDRAYAAN 2- ISRO’s FIRST ‘SOFT-LANDER’
ISRO again made Headlines in World News on 22nd July 2019 at 2:43pm IST (09:13 UTC) when Chandrayaan-2, India’s second Lunar Exploration Mission, was launched successfully by GSLV Mk III...
Hrutwick Sawant and Aditya K Nair
12 Aug 2019
Cosmic ray accelerator through the eye of Multi Messenger Astrophysics
Blazar , Cosmic ray accelerator Source: IceCube, WIPAC
Anonymous
09 Mar 2019
Why we don’t have a moon base, and other future predictions
In 1968, at the height of the Space Race, Stanley Kubrick released a film that would go on to be called one of Hollywood’s greatest. This film depicted commercial travel...
Anonymous
22 Jan 2019
Scientists Discover Pairs Of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
The study, which was conducted for more than 450 merging galaxies, has managed to observe multiple pairs of black holes in their final stage of mergers.
Anonymous
22 Dec 2018
Principles In Theoretical Physics And Holographic Principle
The Holographic principle was first proposed by physicist Leonard Susskind in the 1990s. He showed that many of the laws of physics can be described mathematically using two dimensions, rather...
Anonymous
17 Sep 2018
Synchronization And Chimera States
Synchronization is a process where two or more individual systems interacting with each other move together in terms of their dynamics. In the 60s of XVII century the longitude problem,...
Anonymous
11 Jun 2018
Thermodyanmics of Black Holes
From the instant we found out about these mysterious objects in our universe – the black holes- we have been reviewing all sorts of physics that are valid for it,...
Anonymous
31 Mar 2018
Stephen Hawking - The Man Who Pushed the Boundaries of Knowledge
“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” – Stephen Hawking.
Anonymous
28 Mar 2018
Elon Musk pushes the boundries of humanity
A couple of months ago, our friend the Billionaire, philanthropist, entrepreneur and superhero (No, not Tony Stark) gave us a surprise as he declared SpaceX’s plans for Mars. Almost a...
Mudit Jain
27 Dec 2017
Lyman Alpha Blob
Credit: NASA
Nikhil Bisht
25 Nov 2017
Account Of A Fellow Wandering Star
When I was a kid, I’d peer into the vast, black expanse called space through my television screen. It fascinated me to no extent.
Gaurav Iyer
20 Nov 2017
Physicists Have Figured Out Where The Sun’s Plasma Jets Come From
After over a century of observations and several theories, scientists may have finally nailed the origin of the high-speed plasma blasting through the Sun’s atmosphere several times a day. Using...
Anonymous
25 Jun 2017
NASA Has Discovered Hundreds of Potential New Planets – 10 of them are potential Second-Earth candidates
NASA scientists on Monday announced the discovery of 219 new objects beyond our solar system that are almost certainly planets.
Anonymous
21 Jun 2017
In a World-First, Scientists Have Achieved ‘Liquid Light’ at Room Temperature
For the first time, physicists have achieved ‘liquid light’ at room temperature, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever.
Anonymous
21 Jun 2017
This New Explanation For Dark Matter Could Be The Best One Yet
It makes up about 85 percent of the total mass of the Universe, and yet, physicists still have no idea what dark matter actually is.
Anonymous
21 Jun 2017
Why Science?
Humans are a tiny speck in this vast universe. We have always been curious and we have this intuitive evolutionary thirst to answer every question. This species having a more...
Hareesh Nair
03 Jun 2017
Space_News
Scientists Discover and Confirm the Existence of Two New Dwarf Planets in the Farthest Extremes of the Solar System
The dwarf planets, nicknamed The Goblin and Farout, which are located way beyond Pluto, also hint towards the presence of a far larger body lurking in the depths on the...
Avdhoot Bhandare
17 May 2019
For the First Time, Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Have Been Observed
In a major discovery, astronomers have observed a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other, hundreds of millions of light years away.
Anonymous
29 Jun 2017
Science Space_News
One Of The Oldest Stars In The Universe Discovered
Avdhoot Bhandare
15 Nov 2018
Boyajian’s Star: The star which is slowly losing its soul
In science, we do not simply accept theories. Every new discovery goes through a series of steps to establish itself. If we see a streak of light in the sky,...
Anonymous
23 Sep 2017
Messier-Series
Evolution Of The First Galaxies
Lecture by Prof. Matthew A. Malkan, UCLA
Aeishna Khaund
12 Apr 2020
Mythology
The Mythology Of The Zodiac
The Zodiac
Avdhoot Bhandare
20 Apr 2020
Science Space_News Space_Robotics
Space Tethers
We as humans are pushing our limits in space exploration and are crossing the boundaries we never thought we would. But every time we blast off that 1.5 kilo-ton machine...
Suchetan R S
12 Jul 2021
Robots Vs Humans For Space Exploration
“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
Ashutosh Gupta
04 May 2020
EM_Cosmology Science
Our Universe In The Infrared Spectrum
Abdul Jawad Khan
13 Jul 2020
Our Universe In The Radio Spectrum
Abdul Jawad Khan
18 May 2020
Science
Gravitational Waves
On one fine day in 1916, Albert Einstein decided to completely rewrite our understanding of the physical world when he published his General Theory of Relativity. His findings would forever...
Srikanth C P
21 Aug 2022
Antimatter: Part I
Antimatter. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when we hear this term? A deadly bomb from Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”? Or some fictional term?
Saieesh Sukhrani
01 Oct 2021
Perplexing Paradoxes
Neil Shah
10 Aug 2020
A Brief Overview Of R P Feynman's Thesis
Bhuvan S V
06 Jul 2020
Messier_Series Observations
Messier 3
Messier M3 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs. Messier 3 is one of the brightest, largest globular clusters in the sky, and...
Abdul Jawad Khan
05 Oct 2020
Introduction To Messier Objects
Kaustubh Murudkar
28 Sep 2020
Observations Space_News
Roche Limit
Ever wondered what would happen if our Moon gets too close to the Earth? When you try to imagine what happens when orbital planes, asteroids or satellites get too close...
Piyush Mohite
11 Jul 2021
Telescopes
Spitzer Space Telescopes
The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched 25th August 2003. It was an infrared telescope. It was just the third telescope dedicated to infrared astronomy. Its groundbreaking technology has inspired numerous...
Dhruv Parashar
20 Sep 2022
MOST Space Telescopes
The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) Telescope, also referred to as the “Humble Space Telescope” was not only Canada’s first space telescope launched in 2003 but also the first...
Varun Iyer
06 Sep 2022
INTEGRAL
INTEGRAL or INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory was launched in Earth orbit in 2002 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and is used to observe gamma rays of energies up to...
Tanmayee Srinivas
02 Aug 2022
Chandra Space Observatory
What is the Chandra observatory?
Nirmal Govindaraj
19 Jul 2022
SOHO
On 2nd December 1995, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory(SOHO) as a joint operation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) to study the sun....
Tanmayee Srinivas
12 Jul 2022
Hubble Space Telescope
Try and think of the most beautiful and detailed image you’ve seen of galaxies or any deep space object for that matter, there’s a good chance that the picture was...
Sunayana S Moro
21 Jun 2022
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Anushka Umarani
14 Jun 2022
Space Telescopes: Introduction
The meaning being derived from the name itself, a space telescope or space observatory is a telescope used to observe astronomical/celestial objects but is placed in outer space. Space telescopes...
Shlok Kakkar
07 Jun 2022
Astronomy
Space Debris
Space debris refers to the junk or waste in space, including waste left by human beings as part of space exploration missions and naturally in the form of meteoroids. Dead...
Dhruv Parashar
25 Jun 2022