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.
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.
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 Riyaan Kaul, a grade 5 student.
Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Galactica, flew into space on the 11th of July. A new age of space travel began. Branson said, “To all you kids out there….I was once a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship… if we can do this, just imagine what you can do.”
Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person and he owns a space company called Blue Origin.
Written by Atharv Balaji, a grade 5 student.
On 10th April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration – which is an international collaboration that captures images of black holes using a virtual telescope -released the first-ever picture of a black hole.
Written by Atharv Balaji, a grade 5 student.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully landed their Mars rover, Zhurong, on the Martian surface on 15th May 2021. China is the only country after the USA to land a rover on Mars