Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part II) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2020-12-182020-12-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
News The Disastrous Loss of a Powerful Astronomical Instrument On December 1st, 2020, the scientific society suffered a major setback as the 305-metered Arecibo telescope, functional since 1963, met a tragic demise. Its collapse cannot be termed as completely unexpected or even unpredictable as one of its three suspension cables snapped in August, damaging the reflective dish and dome of the observatory and hence […] Written by Zainab Imran 2020-12-152021-04-26 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part I) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2020-11-292020-12-04 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biography Edwin Hubble: The Pioneer of Distant Stars Edwin Powell Hubble was born on November 20, 1889, in Missouri, US. He was the son of a businessman named John Hubble who worked in the insurance industry; his mother, Virginia James, was a homemaker. He was a bright student and in 1906 won a scholarship to the University of Chicago, Illinois, where he studied […] Written by Willa-e-Ali 2020-11-112020-11-11 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
News A Study of Jupiter and Its Four Moons Astronomer Galileo Galilei observed four moons orbiting around Jupiter some 400 years ago. But it is only in the last four decades that astronomers have been able to study the four moons and reveal their mechanisms of orbit. The four moons (lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are one fourth of the Earth’s radius in size; […] Written by Aliza Khan 2020-07-052021-04-26 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy Advancement in the Pursuit of Extrasolar Water and Life Water is an absolute necessity of life. This is why when astronomers are looking for life in the universe, they are actually on the lookout for water. Astronomers have discovered such a planet called K2-18b, which is at the perfect distance from its star K2-18 that allows water to exist in liquid state therein. This […] Written by Aamna Asghar 2020-05-232020-07-16 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News Spotted: Liquid Iron Rain on an Exoplanet! An exoplanet, similar to Jupiter, WASP-76B could have the ultimate bad weather in form of iron rain. The planet is 390 light years away from the solar system. It is a gas giant similar to Jupiter, but with a much shorter orbit around its stars. It always faces its star on the same side. The […] Written by Syed Yasir Shah 2020-04-082021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Astronomy News The Dance that Spins Spacetime Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, detected relativistic frame dragging while studying a celestial laboratory located thousands of light-years away. The results were published in Science on January 30. Discovered in 1999, the laboratory, in the direction of the Southern Cross constellation, consists of […] Written by Alizah Gul Memon 2020-04-022021-04-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
