Bangalore: At 1 am on May 6, the full moon will be at 3,56,954 km from the centre of the earth. This will be the closest full moon to earth since January 1912. The moon will appear larger in the sky than at any time. This event is also referred to as Supermoon. Early Sunday will see the moons closest encounter with earth since March 19, 2011, when the moon...
08:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Cape Canaveral: Stargazers of the world are getting a treat this weekend. On Saturday and again on Sunday, Venus, Jupiter and Earth's moon converge for a brilliant night show. Venus and Jupiter already are lining up in the western sky. In mid-February, the two planets were 20 degrees apart from a viewing perspective. The gap narrows to 10 degrees by month's end. A crescent moon joins the show this weekend...
08:38 PM, Feb 25, 2012
The two brightest planets Venus and Jupiter will come very close to each other and be joined by a crescent moon. ...
08:56 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Firstly, let me just say that I am not a fan of that kind of cuisine (molecular gastronomy), I believe that food is about making you feel good rather than the chef feeling good. That being said, there are more and more people playing with it, but not very many people doing it successfully. I think knowing the science behind what happens is very, very important. What makes good cooks...
01:02 PM, Jan 10, 2012
HYDERABAD: At first glance, the Celestron CPC 1100 Schmidt at the GP Birla Observatory looks nothing like the long, thin telescopes one has been accustomed to seeing in movies and science textbooks. But thats just the wonder of it. With an 11-inch primary mirror aperture and a wide, stout body for company, this powerful telescope promises to usher in a new age for space enthusiasts wanting to view galaxies 100s...
09:43 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Washington: Planetary scientists claim to have uncovered a new stellar neighbour with the discovery of the closest young star to Earth. An international team has carried out a research and shown that the star, named AP Columbae, is the closest so-called "pre main-sequence" star, 'The Astronomical Journal' reported in its latest edition. "Pre main-sequence stars are much younger than the Sun. Using telescopes in Coonabarabran, Chile, Hawaii and California we...
03:10 PM, Aug 30, 2011
London: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond. "The evolutionary history and amazing density...
12:43 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Washington: Some planets are just flipping backward. Of the more than 500 planets detected around stars besides our Sun, the vast majority appear to spin the same way the star does, scientists reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature. But some of these extrasolar planets spin in the opposite direction of the stars they orbit, astronomers found. These strange, backward-spinning planets are usually gassy giants called hot Jupiters, not rocky...
02:39 PM, May 12, 2011
London: A phenomenon known as a white dwarf hypernova could have sucked alien life into a black hole. Scientists have been long baffled how despite years of searching there has been no evidence of life beyond our planet. But now some astronomers believe the answer may lie in the destructive force of exploding stars - and claim ET (extraterrestrial) may simply have been wiped out. Hypernovas are essentially massive supernovas,...
04:35 PM, Mar 24, 2011
London: The Earth could soon have a second Sun when one of the brightest stars in the night sky explodes into a supernova. The cosmic phenomenon, which may happen as soon as this year and remain for at least a week or two, is expected to be the most stunning light show in the planet's history. According to astronomers, the Earth will undoubtedly have a front row seat when the...
05:40 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Washington: Astronomers led by Indian American Nikku Madhusudhan have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere and core dominated by carbon, raising the prospect that diamond-studded stars may exist. Madhusudan, a Banaras Hindu University (BHU) alumnus now at Princeton University, New Jersey, and his colleagues have observed that an extremely hot planet discovered last year has more carbon than oxygen - a feature never observed on a planet until now....
02:36 PM, Dec 09, 2010
London: A 'super-Earth' discovered recently some 40 light years away could be covered with either water vapour or a thick haze, scientists have said. The planet, which is 2.6 times bigger than Earth, has given scientists their first chance to analyse the atmosphere of a world outside the solar system. A team of astronomers who used the European Southern Observatory's 3.6m telescope in Chile to analyse the planet's atmosphere said...
05:30 PM, Dec 02, 2010
Mumbai: Indian students bagged two golds and one silver medal at the 15th International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) held in Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine. A three-member Indian team (junior category) had participated in the Olympiad which concluded on Sunday. While Sharad Mirani (Ahmedabad) and R Sasibhushan Bharadwaj (Hyderabad) bagged gold medals, Pritish Patil (Nashik) won the silver medal, Dr Aniket sule, academic coordinator of the Indian Astronomy Programme said here on Sunday....
09:36 AM, Oct 25, 2010
Indian American astronaut holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travellers. ...
12:26 PM, Jul 10, 2010
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