Dipankar Banerjee | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Astrophysicist Dipankar Banerjee took charge as Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), on Monday. Professor Banerjee, a senior professor at…
Over 4,000 astronomy enthusiasts visited the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) on Sunday for its open day.The institute celebrated National Science Day as open day on Sunday to facilitate a…
A long-exposure photograph of stars over the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve in Ladakh. | Photo Credit: Akash Anandh The temperatures were subzero and freezing. The conditions were unforgiving. We were…
Planetary conjunction takes place when two planets appear to have come closer, while in reality they remain far away. (Picture courtesy: IE via Indian Institute of Astrophysics)Earth’s two immediate neighbours…