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govind swarup

Remembering Govind Swarup – Astronomer, Builder, Leader

Rajaram Nityananda 10/09/2020

He is widely regarded as the person responsible for...

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Govind Swarup (1929-2020)

Astronomical Society of India 10/09/2020

A tribute by the Astronomical Society of India.

Palomar Transient Factory, Zwicky Transient Facility, small telescopes, Vera Rubin Observatory, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Shrinivas Kulkarni, SpaceX Starlink, astronomical twilight, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, dark energy, Hubble constant, redshift, Doppler effect, charge-coupled devices, Type Ia supernovae, supernova, neutron stars, pulsars, millisecond pulsars, Alex Filippenko, Ooty radio telescope, Govind Swarup, IIT Delhi, Caltech Optical Observatory, Donald Backer,

Interview: Shrinivas Kulkarni, Finder of a Thousand Exploding Stars

Jatan Mehta 25/01/2020

An interview with the creator of the Palomar Transient...

A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing the X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed. The size of the X-ray image is smaller because the higher energy X-ray emitting electrons radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower energy optically emitting electrons as they move. Caption and credit: NASA

X-Ray Camera on ISRO’s Astrosat Makes Strange Pulsar Discovery

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/11/2017

It's sweet to get results that surprise scientists, sweeter...