Blogs Posts in Astrophysics category; 64 blog posts

Purse Masters In Astrophysics Indian

MEDIA IN INDIA The media in India is one of the most powerful tools used by the major powers to control and change the Indian public perception about them selves and about the world. This pattern is also followed in the international scen [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Astrophysics interests star-gazer Swanand

Swanand Khanapurkar, a student of Somalwar Ramdaspeth, has probably secured second position in Nagpur division with an astonishing 98.18% in SSC exam. He attributed his success to three things: Hard work, discipline and regularity. His [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Frustration lingers over canceled exoplanet hunts

Not mad as in "crazy," although many scientists thought he was nuts when he first started hunting for planets orbiting far-distant stars over 20 years ago. Now that over 500 exoplanets have been detected and the Kepler space tel [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Global Warming Concerns Astrophysics

My wife told me one evening that her friend Sarah was to visit India and would be spending a day with her. There was nothing in it that alarmed me as my wife, who is a painter, has friends all over the World and somebody or the other is [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Accidental Astronomy - Expect the Unexpected

Some of the most important astronomical discoveries in history were made unexpectedly, and the cosmic mysteries that puzzle scientists today are likely to be made equally as serendipitously, one astronomer says. Kenneth Lang, an astronomer [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Jodrell astrophysicist receives prestigious award for testin...

Michael Kramer, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie ( MPIfR ) in Bonn, Germany, and Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics ( JBCA ), has received one of the [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Spitzer Space Telescope starts a new life

As astronauts work to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope this week, another large space telescope of NASA started a new life on its own. As expected, on May 15th, 2009, the Spitzer Space Telescope ran out of its liquid helium c [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows

NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. The recipients of this year’s post-doctoral fellowships will conduct independent research at institutions around t [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Astrophysics to aid of heart patients

How planets form might save a heart patient. Though it might sound a bit farfetched it’s absolutely true that result from an astrophysics research might help doctors detect deadly blood clots in a human heart. Geologists studying how [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows

NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble, and Sagan Fellowships. The recipients of this year's post-doctoral fellowships will conduct independent research at institutions around the cou [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Probing The Grandest Questions In Modern Astrophysics

Yale will invest $12 million towards future operations of the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii in exchange for 150 nights of observing time over the next 10 years." This investment will give our astronomers, postdocs and students long- [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomers shed new light on universe's origins

The findings are reported in the latest issue of the journal Science (Vol. 323 No. 5912). The team included team leader Albert Zijlstra and Eric Lagadec of The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Greg Sloan of C [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Exoplanets Get Their Atmosphere Measured for the First Time

Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, a concept that refers to all planet-like celestial bodies orbiting stars in other systems, are very difficult to observe, and even when the telescopes are pointing in the right direction, it takes a cert [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Fly Through a Supernova Remnant in 3-D

When you look at a photo of a galaxy or nebula, do you wonder what it would look like in 3-D? Astrophotos show objects in just two dimensions on the plane of the sky, but everything out there has depth. On Tuesday, astronomers presented ne [...]