Fun Facts About Asteroids
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 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 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?
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 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.
I Kid You Not caught up with Aditya Arjun Anibha, one of the students who discovered an Asteroid!