A Big Ozone Hole Discovered
A scientist from the University of Waterloo, Qing-Bin Lu, recently discovered a massive hole over the tropics, which, it seems, has been there for 30 years and is only just discovered!
A scientist from the University of Waterloo, Qing-Bin Lu, recently discovered a massive hole over the tropics, which, it seems, has been there for 30 years and is only just discovered!
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Named after Edwin Hubble, it’s a really big observatory in space that has a super clear view of the universe. It is used by scientists to observe distant stars, galaxies planets etc, in our solar system.
They are called shooting stars, but they have nothing to do with stars actually. Shooting stars are actually little pieces…
A supermassive black hole in our galaxy (the Milky Way) has been photographed. It’s called Sagittarius A* and it lies at the center of our galaxy.
NASA has shared a brilliant visualization that shows what a black hole would look like as seen on its edge.
Written by Uthara Menon, a grade 4 student.
Gaia is the name of a space observatory (a spacecraft) that belongs to the European Space Agency (ESA)…
Written by Nayantara Singh, a grade 7 student
Monday. 14th February is an important day for ISRO – the Indian Space Research Organisation – India’s national space agency, based in Bengaluru…
Written by Nihal Singh Dhingra, a grade 10 student. (originally published in January 2022)
A Goldilock’s zone refers to the zone (area) around a star is that is habitable, mainly because the temperature in this zone is just right- not too hot or not too cold, for water to exist in liquid form, and thus for life to exist…
Written by Madhav Bahl, a grade 9 student.
The craft was known as the Solar Parker Probe and it was launched on 12th of August 2018. After more than 3 years it entered the Sun’s corona, which is the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere…
Written by Naina Mahajan, a grade 6 student.
This year, we commemorate the 2nd year of Chandrayaan-2’s lunar orbit since it was launched on 22nd July 2019…