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Podcast | In Kannada: How Dung Beetles Find Their Way, Without Getting Lost

Kollegala Sharma and Raghavendra Gadagkar 03/10/2020

Kollegala Sharma and his team will convert editions of...

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More Fun Than Fun: Dung Beetles, the Milky Way and the Marvels of Animal Navigation

Raghavendra Gadagkar 30/09/2020

Insects have remarkable abilities to navigate in two- or...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...

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Want to Track ‘Zero Shadow Days’? There’s (Now) an App for That

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam 27/04/2018

The ZSD app aims to promote school students to...

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy looms over the La Silla Observatory, Chile. Credit: esoastronomy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Astronomers Use High-School Math to Find Out

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/10/2017

We have stunning shots of other galaxies but we...