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Liquid Mirror Telescope

05 Jun 2022

India gets world's first liquid mirror telescope for astronomy- Read details

The telescope will be used to observe the galaxies and other astronomical elements present at the edge of the world About 50L of mercury-filled into a container of the ILMT ILMT is capable of generating 10-15 GB per night

25 Dec 2021

NASA's revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope due for launch today

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is due for launch on Saturday. It is a $9 billion instrument that will allow to peer more deeply into the cosmos. The 14,000-pound instrument will be released from the French-built rocket after a 26-minute ride into space.

11 Jul 2019

Earth's largest radio telescope to search for 'new worlds'

Radio detection of exoplanets aims at the physical characterization of exoplanets and comparative studies with solar system planets.

13 Feb 2018

45-year-old US telescope to help scientists solve mystery of dark matter

The new instrument would begin a five-year observing run at Kitt Peak National Observatory after its installation next year.

04 Nov 2017

Casting process for fifth mirror of largest telescope begins

The project, inaugurated in 2015 and expected to be operational by 2021, will be used to study planets outside our solar system and analyze galaxy formation.

21 Aug 2017

Americans cheer as rare total solar eclipse marches across country

"It just kind of tickled you all over — it was wonderful — and I wish I could do it again," said Stormy Shreves, 57, a fish gutter who lives in Depoe Bay. "But I won`t see something like that ever again, so I`m really glad I took the day off work so I could experience it."

25 Feb 2017

NASA's lost football-field-sized balloon recovered from Antarctica

The US space agency NASA's lost football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it has been recovered Antarctica from after a year of its flight.

23 Sep 2016

Hubble sees colorful ‘last hurrah’ of a sun-like star! (See pic)

The image shows the colorful "last hurrah" of NGC 2440, which lies about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Puppis.

Hubble Space Telescope

12 Sep 2016

Hubble peers into stormy scenes of dark dust in Large Magellanic Cloud!

N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC.

Venus-Jupiter conjunction

24 Aug 2016

Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 27: Viewing tips! (Watch)

Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular celestial show this weekend, the Venus-Jupiter conjunction.

30 May 2016

Watch: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in 11 years today!

The Red Planet will be about 46.8 million miles away from the Earth, its closest distance since November 2005.

Mercury transit

09 May 2016

Mercury to make rare transit across the Sun today: How to watch it safely!

Mercury will begin its transit at 7:12 am EST (4:42 pm, India time) today and take about 7.5 hours to fully cross the face of the sun.

world's largest telescope

01 May 2016

World's largest telescope may be set up in Ladakh

India is a 10 per cent partner in the TMT project, which includes China, Japan, Canada and the US.

30 Mar 2016

PM Modi, Belgian PM jointly launch Asia's biggest telescope in Brussels- Watch!

ARIES, the largest optical telescope of its kind in Asia, is a product of Indo-Belgian collaboration.

22 Feb 2016

NASA's 'flying' telescope begins studying asteroids, stars

SOFIA’s instruments observe infrared energy - one part of the electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, x-rays, radio waves and others.

07 Jan 2016

Space lovers, you can now see black hole with naked eyes!

Have black holes always fascinated you? Well, all you need is a 20 cm telescope to observe a nearby active black hole.

05 Dec 2015

NASA shares image of Mauna Kea volcano from space – See pic

US space agency NASA has shared an image of the aerial view of the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii Island.

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