Year: 2019

asteroid Bennu, asteroid Ryugu, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, near-Earth objects, YORP effect, Yarkovsky effect, microgravity, extinction event, Keplerian orbit, early Earth, asteroid sampling missions, JAXA,

To Bennu and Back, Looking for Clues of Our Origins – and Maybe Of Our End

Partha Pratim Bera 11/04/2019

After travelling over 3.21 million km, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft...

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Elections 2019: Bringing Mental Health Into India’s Political Conversations

Ribhu 11/04/2019

The #BridgeTheCareGap campaign wants political parties to talk about...

Event Horizon Telescope, black hole, gravitational lensing, ALMA, Double Negative Gravity Renderer, Interstellar, Christopher Nolan, Kip Thorne, M87 galaxy, M87 black hole, Sagittarius A*, Milky Way galaxy, Shep Doeleman, US National Science Foundation, science communication, Slate, Twitter,

Look Behind the Low-Res Black Hole

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/04/2019

The EHT has a 10-year headstart on any new...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

International Team of Astronomers Obtains First Direct Image of a Black Hole

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam 11/04/2019

An FAQ with details of all you need to...

Much of Mumbai rests only a few meters above sea level. Credit: Nikhil Anand)

Mumbai’s Coastal Reclamation Project – The Likelihood of a Not-So-Natural Disaster

Nikhil Anand 11/04/2019

The city has not as yet conducted a serious...

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Fact Check: Modi Said Congress Looted Maternity Benefits, but What Is BJP’s Record?

The Wire Staff 10/04/2019

The government’s scheme excludes more women that it covers....

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

A 200-Year-Old Experiment Has Helped Us See a Black Hole’s Shadow

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/04/2019

With one fuzzy image, history has been made.