Dr Anusha L.S a Ph.D scholar from IIAP in Computational Physics and currently doing her postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for...
In the universe we inhabit, Helium comes second after Hydrogen. Hydrogen has almost 88 per cent share of all atoms in the...
Our eyes have a light gathering aperture of a few millimeters only. The eyes day time opening is 1-2 millimeters across and...
The chemistry of the sun continued to be analyzed by its light. a Swedish physicist , Anders Jonas Angstrom (1814-1874) detected the...
Significant advances in celestial spectroscopy were made in the early 19th century in England where William Huggins (1824-1910), an amateur astronomer looked...
Young’s Double-slit Interferometer A genius who started reading at the young age of two, Thomas Young (1773-1829), was an English polymath who...
The intellectual climate changed, albeit slowly. For example, a Jesuit astronomer, Johannn Schreck took a telescope to China in 1621, but he...
Spectroscopy’s most dramatic application was in determining an object’s motion towards or away from earth. In 1868 William Huggins found that dark...
“His life was a part of the growth of the scientific research and progress in India”. That is how the late professor...
The sky is mostly blue, but not always! Why? The short answer is air molecules in the atmosphere of the earth. They...