Sunday, 17 March 2013

NASA spots one of the youngest-known supernova remnants

NASA spots one of the youngest-known supernova remnants

NASA spots one of the youngest-known supernova remnants

NASA's Swift satellite has discovered one of the youngest-known supernova remnants - believed to be less than 2,500 years old - in our Milky Way galaxy. The new object, discovered while performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, ...
Pluto may have 10 more undiscovered moons

Pluto may have 10 more undiscovered moons

Pluto's orbit may host a formation of 10 or more tiny undiscovered moons, which would each measure just 1 to 3 kilometres across, astronomers say. This preliminary finding could make life even more difficult for the team planning NASA's New Horizons ...
India to launch first navigational satellite in June

India to launch first navigational satellite in June

India plans to launch its first navigational satellite in June, a top official of the Department of Space (DoS) said on Saturday. The first Satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation, IRNSS-1 will be launched by PSLV-C22, said ...
UFO sightings: After Chinese, Russian sightings Indian troops saw them

UFO sightings: After Chinese, Russian sightings Indian troops saw them

UFO sightings are becoming commonplace. After Chinese and Russian UFO sightings Indian troops saw them too near Indo-China border. It is not only Cape Town that has witnessed UFO activities but last year Indian Army troops guarding the Indo-China ...
Arctic Ocean: Strategic implications for India and the region

Arctic Ocean: Strategic implications for India and the region

Arctic Ocean: Strategic implications for India and the region New Delhi: Situated right on top of our planet, the Arctic Ocean has been frozen since times immemorial. Desolate, frigid and mysterious, it remained insignificant. However, of late, the Arctic is ...
Sara Brightman

Sara Brightman's Space Trip Under Question – Roscosmos

Russia's space agency Roscosmos and NASA may opt against sending music star Sarah Brightman to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015, Russian agency's head Vladimir Popovkin said on Saturday. Brightman's trip to orbit depends on the duration ...
VC SMVDU inaugurates National Conference in Mathematics

VC SMVDU inaugurates National Conference in Mathematics

Report by India Education bureau, Katra: A two day National Conference on Algebra, Analysis and Applications was inaugurated by Prof. S. K. Jain, Vice Chancellor, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on 15.03.2013. The conference is organised by School of ...
ALMA: New Jewel of the Atacama Desert: Photos

ALMA: New Jewel of the Atacama Desert: Photos

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA, is nearing completion after over 30 years of planning and collaborating among astronomers and engineers from several nations. The completed array will consist of 66 antennas and two ...
Astronomy | Tracking smaller asteroids is no easy assignment

Astronomy | Tracking smaller asteroids is no easy assignment

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