City gets India's first International Dark-Sky Association chapter

	City gets India's first International Dark-Sky Association chapter Chief Minister Oommen Chandy launching the first India chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association in the city on Friday. | EPS. With the objective of controlling light pollution and getting people to “embrace the night”, the first India chapter of the ...
	City scientists develop scheme for rapid identification of pulsars After the successful discovery of six new exotic millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), scientists Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Jayanta Roy have identified a novel scheme for rapid identification of pulsars. “We are the first ...
	Laser powered Camera System that can Capture Objects at Long Distances ... Researchers in the first week of April developed a New Laser powered Camera System that can take image of any object from a distance of about one kilometer by creating high-resolution 3D images. The technique on which the camera is based is called ...
	Hubble spies most distant star explosion ever Astronomers have spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind, a supernova that could help scientists better understand the nature of the universe. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists recently caught sight of Supernova UDS10Wil ...
	News and Information Human travel to Mars has long been the unachievable dangling carrot for space programs. Now, astronauts could be a step closer to our nearest planetary neighbor through a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion, the same energy that powers the sun and ...
	President Obama wants NASA to grab an asteroid, send astronauts to study it The next giant leap in space exploration may be a short hop on a small space rock. Next week, President Obama will request $105 million in NASA's 2014 budget for a mission that would capture a small asteroid, tug it near the moon, and later send astronauts ...
	National Centre for Radio Astrophysics's breakthrough discovery to help locate ... PUNE: Scientists will now be able to find accurate positions of neutron stars in the galaxy, which will go a long way in discovering the existence of gravitational waves, helpful in tracing the evolution of the universe and the existence of extreme events like ...
	Signs of star formation close to supermassive black hole detected Signs of star formation close to supermassive black hole detected Washington: Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center ...
	Scientists to Io: Volcanoes are in the Wrong Spot This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute › Full image and caption ...
	Climate Change and Industrial Fishing Benefiting Beaufort Island Adélie ... Scientists from the University of Minnesota unveiled that climate change can be a cause of benefit for the penguins. It was found that steep cliffs as well as glaciers can limit the Beaufort Island Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colony's nesting grounds' ...