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XpoSat: India's venture into the new frontier of X-ray astronomy
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commenced the new year with the launch of the X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat). X-ray polarization measurement is an emerging technique in X-ray astronomy and...
Aditya-L1: India's Array of Instruments on a Journey Closer to the Sun, Continuing a Legacy of Space Excellence
The Sun has fascinated mankind since the dawn of civilization. From famines to fertile farms, every aspect of life on Earth was defined by it. Unaware of the true nature...
Chandrayaan-3 : A 14 day lunar cruise
India’s ambitious space program reaches new heights as Chandrayaan-3, the eagerly anticipated lunar exploration mission, prepares for launch. Get ready to witness history in the making as India embarks again...
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MALS Unveiled: Revealing Half a Million Cosmic Radio Sources
This article describes a series of scientific endeavors undertaken that led to the compilation and characterization of nearly half a million radio sources observed as part of the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS, P.I.- Prof. Neeraj Gupta). Remarkably, many of...
I-Love-C universal relation for the anisotropic neutron stars
The neutron star is the most well known compact object in the Universe. It has several macroscopic properties such as mass (M), radius (R), compactness (C), tidal deformability (Λ), and moment of inertia (I), which can be observed using different...
Bending/Flipping/Reorienting: Superheated plasma outflow from supermassive blackhole producing ‘X’-like fountains
Embark on a cosmic journey as Gourab Giri explores the enigmatic X-shaped structures observed in radio galaxies, formed by the ejection of jets from supermassive black holes.
Revealing the mysteries of the Sun's coronal Magnetic Field using high energy spectropolarimetry
This article explains the importance of the Sun’s coronal magnetic field. In view of this, this article elaborates the capability of spectral lines emitted in the extreme-ultraviolet and delineates the promising technique of the Hanle effect in deriving the coronal...
Rockets in the Interstellar Medium
Space vehicles are propelled by rocket engines that generate thrust by expelling exhaust at extremely rapid speeds. As Newton’s third law states “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”, the engines help to accelerate the rockets forward...
Collisions between galaxies: A frequent phenomenon than we expected earlier
Initially, early-type galaxies were considered aged, evolved systems with a reddish appearance, primarily comprising older stars and lacking young star formation due to limited gas and dust resources. However, contemporary techniques, such as integral field spectroscopy for studying star motion...