supernova

fast radio bursts, black holes, neutron stars, neutron star merger, Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, blitzar, cosmic candles, Abraham Loeb, Manasvi Lingam, Global Positioning System, NAVIC,

We’re Finally Getting to Know the Secrets of Neutron Stars as Well

Prakash Chandra 22/04/2020

Are neutron stars – the incredibly dense, burnt-out cores...

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Why Did Betelgeuse Dim?

Ravinder Banyal 09/04/2020

Recently, Betelgeuse's brightness began to dim in unprecedented ways,...

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Will You Be Sad If the Betelgeuse Star Goes Supernova?

Lucianne Walkowicz 21/02/2020

Betelgeuse’s fainting is an exciting chance for naked-eye stargazers...

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...

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A Surprisingly Big Black Hole Might Have Swallowed a Star From the Inside Out

Roberto Soria 01/12/2019

Astronomers using a new technique to hunt black holes...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory, LIGO, aLIGO, LIGO India, black hole, gravitational waves, neutron star, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, ergosphere, escape velocity, Event Horizon Telescope, proton, EM counterparts, electromagnetic radiation, supernova, kilonova,

Astronomers Excited Over Prospect of Black Hole Feasting on a Neutron Star

Prakash Chandra 24/08/2019

Having confirmed the gravitational signature of such a cataclysmic...

dust, air pollution, Kordylewski clouds, natural satellites, Earth moons, space debris, house dust mites, asthma, PM10, PM2.5, Sahara desert, Bodele depression, meteor, meteorites, asteroids, comets, supernova, neutron star merger, black holes, Andromeda galaxy, Lagrange points, ISRO Aditya L1, Hiten satellite, cosmic dust, Brian Keating, cosmic microwave background, Big Bang, accretion disk, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, panspermia, Jupiter, Saturn moons, Pan moon, origin of life, Arthur C. Clarke, moondust, regolith, Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO,

The Story of Dust, Through Space and Time

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/11/2018

Unlike our search thus far for extraterrestrial companionship, we...