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Indigenously Developed Spectrograph Commissioned on Devasthal Optical Telescope

The spectrograph can locate sources of faint light from...

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Study of Neutron-Star Merger Uncovers New Mystery: The ‘Cocoon’

Vishwam Sankaran 22/12/2017

Astronomers have thought powerful cosmic explosions called short gamma...

Hubbard glacier, Alaska. Credit: robertraines/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Brief History of Earth: The Lives and Times of the First Ice Ages

Sandhya Ramesh 21/06/2016

A series exploring the natural history of Earth, beginning...

A Swift Observatory image of the luminous afterglow of Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080319B in X-rays (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet (right). Caption and image credit: Wikimedia Commons

ISRO Scores Big With This ASTROSAT Instrument

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/11/2015

Soon after it came online, the Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager was...

"This illustration shows the positions of 1,000 Swift GRBs on an all-sky map oriented so that the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way, runs across the centre. Bursts are colour coded by year, and the location of GRB 151027B is shown at lower right. An annual tally of the number of bursts Swift has detected appears below the label for each year. Background: An infrared view from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey." Caption and image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre and 2MASS/J. Carpenter, T. H. Jarrett, and R. Hurt

NASA Telescope Logs the 1,000th Blackhole Birth It’s Spotted

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/11/2015

Since its launch, Swift has significantly contributed to the...