Written by Prarthana Sheopuri. Managing Editor, I Kid You Not.
Auroras happen when electrically charged particles from the Sun meet (collide) with the gases in Earth’s upper atmosphere. These “collisions” cause billions of flashes of light in the night sky, which is what we see.
Written by Prarthana Sheopuri. Managing Editor, I Kid You Not.
It’s India’s first privately built rocket
Written by Aindrila Jana, writer
Why do we call it the Solar System?
Written by Prarthana Sheopuri. Managing Editor, I Kid You Not.
On 10 October, space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst passing through the Milky Way. Astronomers called this a B.O.A.T – or Brightest Of All Time!
Written by Prarthana Sheopuri. Managing Editor, I Kid You Not.
Mars Orbiter Mission, or as it’s been popularly called, the Mangalyaan, is a space probe orbiting Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission.
Written by Aindrila Jana, a third-year undergraduate student
Rocky objects orbiting the Sun that are too minute to be considered planets are asteroids. They are mostly made of rocks and metals.
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Fruit flies went to space before any other humans – they were actually the first living things in space!
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea, as it looks like a big blob of aqua blue ocean against a black backdrop of starry cosmos…
Written by Madhav, a grade 10 student
A solar flare is an intense burst of radioactive energy coming from the release of magnetic energy, which is present in the sunspots.
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Do you ever feel the moon appears bigger sometimes?