By Avani Sharan Team Cosmofluencer One of the most ambitious projects in radio astronomy is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), currently under construction in South Africa and Australia. Once completed, this international project will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built in the world. What is the SKA The SKA is not […]
By Avani Sharan Team Cosmofluencer We see the stars twinkling when we look up at the night sky. Now what if we could get more information along with just the visible light from them? This is precisely what radio astronomy does—it tunes into the cosmos by detecting radio waves emitted by celestial objects and views […]
By Avani Sharan Team Cosmofluencer Space Tourism as the name suggests is travelling to space for leisure or business purposes. Earlier, travelling to space was reserved for astronauts but today a lot of private companies are working towards making space tourism a reality. Herein, the tourists experience weightlessness, high speeds and some great breathtaking views. […]
By Avani Sharan Team Cosmofluencer What if we lived in a world where there is no fossil fuel and the only source of energy are the natural ones? Now what if our planet Earth had no tides or any source of hydropower? And what if Sun was the only source we ever had? Can humans’ […]
By Yagyasha Cosmofluencer (Season 04) For those wondering, this principle with a very scary name is simply the notion that, from a large enough distance,the universe seems to look the same to every observer. To put it in scientific terms, Cosmological principle says that the spatial distribution of our universe is isotropic and homogeneous when […]
By Yash Tomar Cosmofluencer (Season 04) Yes, we are made of star stuff, to understand this let’s start from the beginning, right after the Big Bang when the early stars began to form from the newly created Hydrogen(H) and Helium(He) present in the Primordial soup. Then, in the core of the stars, a process called […]
By Sameer Tanwar Cosmofluencer (Season 04) In the vast expanse of the universe, there exist monsters so powerful that they can devour entire galaxies. These monsters are called Quasars. What are Quasars? Quasars are incredibly bright objects that are powered by supermassive black holes. The black hole’s intense gravitational pull sucks in gas and dust […]
By Parul Pahurkar Cosmofluencer (Season 04) The night sky has always interested human beings: the twinkling stars, the glowing beauty of the moon, and sometimes the rare and magnificent display of colored lights shimmering across the heavens—auroras. Breathtaking and surreal, these almost fantastical light displays known as the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in the North […]
By Yagyasha Cosmofluencer (Season 04) We all remember being spammed with memes about Pluto being “demoted” to a dwarf planet back in time. But was it truly ever downgraded or just given a new better fitting title? Let’s learn what dwarf planets are and then decide. What are they? On 24 August 2006 , members […]
By Bhoomi Raiyani Cosmofluencer (Season 04) What if someone tells you, you can watch the invisible? Or that you can bend light? Of Course, you will find it impossible to do. However, what if I tell you that the beauty of physics provides that superpower to make it possible? Gravitational lensing is a very eccentric […]