HAGAR telescope

An artist's impression of a blazar, one kind of cosmic object that the telescope will be able to study. Credit: JPL/NASA/Wikimedia Commons

Telescope Planned in Ladakh Will Place Advanced Eyes on High-Energy Universe

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 22/09/2018

The four-metre telescope will be able to operate in...

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India’s First Robotic Telescope Opens Its Eyes to the Universe

Dinesh C. Sharma 03/07/2018

The facility at Hanle is part of a multi-country...

"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...