Starry Knights

Stars rising and setting over Maunakea as seen from Maunaloa, Hawaii. ✨

Look for - stunning star trails around Polaris, the winter arm of the Milky Way, Andromeda galaxy, Zodiacal light, and a breathtaking sunrise! 🌟

🌌 Starry Timelapse from Mauna Loa! 🌄 Watch as stars rise and set over Maunakea from Maunaloa, Big Island, Hawaii. ✨ Stunning star trails around Polaris, the winter arm of the Milky Way, Andromed...

✨ Eyes on Skies with Starry Knights ✨
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🚨 Event Alert: Perseids Meteor Shower is Coming! 🌠
🗓️ Date: Peak night – August 11-12, 2024
🔥 Meteors (ZHR): Up to 100 per hour!
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🌌 What’s a Meteor Shower?
When a comet gets close to the Sun, some of its icy surface boils off leaving behind a trail of dust and rock. If Earth crosses this trail while revolving around the Sun, we get treated to a dazzling meteor shower! ✨ These meteor showers repeat every year as Earth crosses the trail once a year in it's orbit around the Sun.

💫 Perseids Meteor Shower (Fireworks from Space!)
Debris left behind from Comet Swift-Tuttle makes this show happen. 🌠 And guess what? This comet only comes around every 133 years! Next up in 2126 – don’t miss out!

🔗 Check https://www.meteorshowers.org/ for a 3D visualization of Swit-Tuttle's orbit.
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🔭 Fun Facts:

✨ ZHR (Zenith Hourly Rate): The number of meteors a single observer might see in an hour under perfect conditions.

✨ Meteor: A piece of space rock that burns up in Earth's atmosphere, often called a "shooting star". 🔥

✨ Meteoroid: A small rocky or metallic body in space, ranging from millimeters to a meter in size. Smaller than an asteroid, bigger than a speck of dust.

✨ Meteorite: A meteor that survives a trip through Earth's atmosphere and makes it to the ground.

✨ Comet: Icy dirtball orbiting the Sun, leaving trails of dust and rocks (or cosmic confetti!).

✨ Asteroid: Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun, much smaller than planets.
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📸 Image Credits: cnyo.org, Future

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𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔

𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁:
𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲
&
𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 (𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁)

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟮𝟰 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- Occultation: Is when an object is hidden by another object in the line of sight of an observer. Eclipses are a type of occultation.

---- Lunar occultation: Is when the Moon appears to move in front of another object in the sky like a star, a planet, or an asteroid, as seen from Earth.

---- On 24 July 2024, from certain places on Earth, the Moon would be seen occulting Saturn.

---- At occultation, you can expect to see Saturn going behind the Moon and then reappearing in a couple of hours, depending on your location.

---- For occultation time prediction based on your location, check:
https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20240724_16_100
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[𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝑖𝘯-𝘵ℎ𝘦-𝘴𝑘𝘺.𝘰𝑟𝘨]

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𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔
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𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒!!
-- 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 (𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞)

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟱 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰

𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 (~𝟰:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗺)
(𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗶𝘂𝘀)
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- Occultation: Is when an object is hidden by another object in the line of sight of an observer. Eclipses are a type of occultation.
---- Lunar occultation: Is when the Moon moves in front of another object in the sky like a star, a planet or an asteroid, as seen from Earth.
---- On 5 March 2024, from certain places on Earth, the Waning Crescent Moon (24%) would be seen occulting the star 'Antares'.
---- For detailed prediction of occultation: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20240205_16_100
---- Antares is the brightest star in constellation Scorpius. Antares is a red supergiant star and marks the Scorpion's 'heart'.
---- Antares appears as a single star when viewed with the naked eye, but it is actually a binary star! A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around each other.
---- Antares is 11 to 14 times heavier than our Sun with a radius that is 690 times bigger than our Sun, shining with a brightness of over 10,000 Suns! Antares is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye.
---- Waning moon phase means the portion of the Moon that is lit by sunlight is decreasing each night, between the full moon and new moon phase.
---- The Moon is said to be a crescent when it is less than half illuminated.
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[𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝑖𝑛-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝑜𝑟𝑔, 𝑠𝑘𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑒.𝑜𝑟𝑔]


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Inviting school teachers for a workshop organized at IUCAA by the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) in India. This is a two day astronomy themed teacher training program on 16th and 17th February, 2024.

This workshop will cover seasons, tides, eclipse, phases of moon, lifecycle of stars, basics of astronomy, and pedagogy.

Workshop is free of charge, and we invite teachers teaching astronomy topics at school (class 5th - 10th) to register for this workshop. This is an offline workshop at Pune, India. Accomodation facilty is not available.

Application deadline is 2nd February, 2024. Please register at - https://bit.ly/ttp_iucaa

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Moon's Celestial Gatherings to look out for in Jan 2024

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Close approach of Moon &..
8 - Venus, at dawn
8 - Antares, at dawn
10 - Mars, at dawn
14 - Saturn, at dusk
15 - Neptune, at dusk
18 - Jupiter, at dusk
20 - Pleiades cluster, at dusk
22 - Beta Tauri (blue-white giant star in Ta**us), at dusk
24 - Pollux (red giant star in Gemini), after dusk
25 - Beehive cluster (in Cancer), all night
27 - Regulus (quadruple star system in Leo), all night
31 - Spica (binary star system in Virgo), all night

"Noctalgia" - a term coined by astronomers to describe the grief that comes with no longer being able to look up and see a number of stars at night. It's also known as "sky grief".

Noctalgia (sky grief): Our Brightening Night Skies and Loss of Environment for Astronomy and Sky Traditions Fifty years after the first mention of light pollution in Science, the journal recently elevated this topic to the cover of its 16 June 2023 issue, highlighting the large impact on human and ecological health, circadian rhythms, migratory patterns, and more. We offer here the term noctalgia to expre...

ICTS-TIFR is organizing an online science drawing competition as a part of celebrating world science day for Peace and Development. This event is planned to motivate science loving kids to think creatively.

The topic for this competition is 'Peace and development with the help of science'. Kids can use any medium or style as per their preferences. They can submit their entries for the competition by sending a good photograph of their painting, via email, before the 10th November, 2023, with subject line: 'Painting'.
📩 [email protected]

The results will be announced on November 20th 2023. This program is only for kids from 10 to 15 years old.

World Wide Data Day 2023: For school teachers & high school students

Date: 9 November 2023
Time: 00:00-23:59 UTC

'World Wide Data Day' is a data analysis event that spans 24 hours during which students from around the world can analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider and share results live via videoconference.

Registration is currently open & will be closing soon.

For more details, visit the website:

World Wide Data Day World Wide Data Day 2023: November 9, 00:00-23:59 UTC Small URL for this page: https://cern.ch/w2d2. Registration will open in October 2023. To inquire further, please send an e-mail. LHC World Wide Data Day is a 24-hour span, midnight-to-midnight UTC, in which students from around the world can ana...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded for experiments with light that capture the shortest of moments.

This year’s physics laureates Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have conducted experiments that demonstrate a method for producing pulses of light that are brief enough to capture images of processes inside atoms and molecules.

Electrons’ movements in atoms and molecules are so rapid that they are measured in attoseconds. An attosecond is to one second as one second is to the age of the universe.

Attosecond pulses make it possible to measure the time it takes for an electron to be tugged away from an atom, and to examine how the time this takes depends on how tightly the electron is bound to the atom’s nucleus. It is possible to reconstruct how the distribution of electrons oscillates from side to side or place to place in molecules and materials; previously their position could only be measured as an average.

Attosecond pulses can be used to test the internal processes of matter, and to identify different events. These pulses have been used to explore the detailed physics of atoms and molecules, and they have potential applications in areas from electronics to medicine.

For example, attosecond pulses can be used to push molecules, which emit a measurable signal. The signal from the molecules has a special structure, a type of fingerprint that reveals what molecule it is, and the possible applications of this include medical diagnostics.

Now that the attosecond world has become accessible, these short bursts of light can be used to study the movements of electrons. It is now possible to produce pulses down to just a few dozen attoseconds, and this technology is developing all the time.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

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𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗮𝗻-𝟯 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁-𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁

Date: 23 August 2023
Time: From 5:20 PM IST

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𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀:

YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DLA_64yz8Ss

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISRO/live_videos

TV: DD National

Additionally, a special lecture organized at IUCAA, Pune with live stream starting at 4 PM IST: https://www.youtube.com/IUCAASciPOP/live
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Chandrayaan-3 is a planned third lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

A soft landing is any type of aircraft, rocket or spacecraft landing that does not result in significant damage to or destruction of the vehicle or its payload, as opposed to a hard landing.

Chandrayaan-1 performed a controlled hard landing with its Moon Impact Probe (MIP).

Chandrayaan-2 was designed to perform a soft landing and operate a robotic rover over the lunar surface. On 7 September 2019, contact was lost with the Vikram lander and was later confirmed to have crashed and been destroyed.

Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe soft landing and roving on the lunar surface. It will consist of a lander and a rover similar to Chandrayaan-2, but would not have an orbiter.
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𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔
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𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟮-𝟭𝟯 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
𝗭𝗛𝗥: ~𝟭𝟬𝟬
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𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓: 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓, 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ. 𝐴𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛, 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓: 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑡–𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 133 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑡–𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 2126.
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- ZHR: Zenith Hourly Rate, the number of meteors a single observer might see in an hour at the time & date of peak activity. The ZHR is basically what a perfect observer would see under perfect skies with the meteor shower radiant straight overhead (- which never happens)!

---- Meteor: Also known as a 'shooting star', is a piece of rock from space that glows as it burns up while passing through the Earth's atmosphere. The piece of rock could have been a meteoroid, comet or an asteroid.

---- Meteoroid: A small rocky or metallic body in outer space. They range in size order from millimeters to a meter. They are much smaller than asteroids and are often small fragments of asteroids.

---- Meteorite: A meteoroid when it enters the Earth's atmosphere is called a 'meteor'. If the meteor manages to survive burning through the atmosphere, a solid piece of the meteor falls to the Earth and is called a 'meteorite'. It is a piece of rock from outer space that survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere.

---- Comet: Comets are dusty snowballs that orbit the Sun. They are made of ices, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, mixed with dust. These materials came from the time when the Solar System was formed.

---- Asteroid: Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Although asteroids orbit the Sun-like planets, they are much much smaller than planets.
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[𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚, 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝑊𝑒𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟]



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CHANDRAYAAN-3: Watch the Launch LIVE from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

"Chandrayaan-3 is a planned third lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation. Chandrayaan-3 is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface. It will consist of a lander and a rover similar to Chandrayaan-2, but would not have an orbiter. Its propulsion module will behave like a communication relay satellite. The propulsion module will carry the lander and rover configuration till 100 km lunar orbit. The propulsion module has Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) payload to study the spectral and Polari metric measurements of Earth from the lunar orbit. It will be launched Sriharikota."

🚀LVM3-M4/Chandrayaan-3🛰️ Mission:
The countdown leading to the launch tomorrow at 14:35:17 Hrs. IST is in progress.

The launch can be viewed LIVE at
http://isro.gov.in
https://facebook.com/ISRO
https://youtube.com/watch?v=q2ueCg9bvvQ
DD National
from 14:00 Hrs. IST on July 14, 2023.

More pics on our Instagram account of ISRO/Department of Space, isro.dos
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuo0NP7hqFg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

ISRO has launched a new online training programme called Space Science and Technology Awareness Training (START) aimed at post-graduate and final-year undergraduate students of physical sciences and technology. The programme will cover various domains of space science, including Astronomy & Astrophysics, Heliophysics & Sun-Earth interaction, and Aeronomy. It will be delivered by eminent scientists from Indian academia and ISRO centres.

The programme is intended to provide students with introductory-level training in space science and technology, giving them an overview of different facets of the field, research opportunities, and career options. The training will also emphasize the cross-disciplinary nature of space science, giving students insights into how their individual aptitudes can be applied to the field. The programme is expected to help build a human capacity that will lead space science and research in the future.

Indian academic institutions can register for the programme by submitting their Expression of Interest in the prescribed format through the Jigyasa portal by May 20, 2023.

Details: https://www.isro.gov.in/START.html

Express the interest at: https://jigyasa.iirs.gov.in/START

"IfA Astronomer Roy Gal and colleagues will be observing with both the Keck and Subaru telescopes on the nights of March 29th and 30th. We will be hosting Shadow the Scientists sessions both nights from 930-1130pm, where you can join us via Zoom and see how observing on professional telescopes works, talk science with us, and ask us about astronomy and astro careers. If you are interested, please visit

https://shadow.ucsc.edu/2022/03/04/upcoming-sessions/

to register for one or both nights, and you will be provided with the Zoom link.

We hope to see you online during one of the sessions!"

Upcoming StS Sessions & Registration – Shadow the Scientists Upcoming StS Sessions & Registration StS Sessions:(* = first-half night; ** = second-half night) 2023 March 26: W. M. Keck Observatory (Hawaiʻi**) — StS registration form March 27, 4:00–5:00 AM HST = March 27, 1400–1500 GMT Joel Roediger (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre), ...

𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔
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𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝘀
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟮𝟰 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝘀
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 & 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 (𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁)
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟮𝟰 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟬𝟴:𝟭𝟭 𝗨𝗧𝗖, 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟮:𝟱𝟰 𝗨𝗧𝗖
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- Occultation: Is when an object is hidden by another object in the line of sight of an observer. Eclipses are a type of occultation.

---- Lunar occultation: Is when the Moon moves in front of another object in the sky like a star, a planet or an asteroid, as seen from Earth.

---- On 24 March 2023, from certain places on Earth, the Waxing Crescent Moon would be seen occulting Venus.

---- During occultation, you can expect to see Venus going behind the Moon and then reappearing in a few hours depending on your location.

---- Waxing moon phase means the portion of the Moon that is lit by sunlight is increasing each night, between the new moon and full moon phase. Waning moon phase means the portion of the Moon that is lit by sunlight is decreasing each night, between the full moon and new moon phase.

---- The Moon is said to be a crescent when it is less than half illuminated. The Moon is said to be gibbous when it is more than half illuminated.

---- For occultation time prediction based on your location:
https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20230324_16_100
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[𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝑖𝑛-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝑜𝑟𝑔, 𝑀𝑟. 𝑆𝑦𝑧𝑦𝑔𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚]

𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕.. 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕.


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Sunset green flash and a rare purple flash seen in Hawaii

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Sunset green flash and a rare purple flash in Hawaii, 4K and slow motion.. [Jan 2022] What is a green flash?The green flash is an optical phenomenon that occurs during a sunset or a sunrise if conditions are favourable. The green flash happens...

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮), 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C V Raman on 28 February 1928.
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𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟯: Check the photos attached to this post for a (non-exhaustive) list of events planned by various institutes across India.

List of institutes in the attached posters:
-- Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneshwar, 24-28 Feb
-- Regional Science Centre, Bhopal, 28 Feb
-- Dhenkanal Science Centre, Dhenkanal, 24-28 Feb
-- Birla Industrial &Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata, 28 Feb
-- Goa Science Centre & Planetarium, Panaji, 25-28 Feb
-- Raman Science Centre & Planetarium, Nagpur, 24 Feb - 8 Mar
-- Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), New Delhi, 28 Feb
-- Anuragyam Science & Technology, Online, 24-28 Feb
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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮), 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C V Raman on 28 February 1928.
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𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮: Check the photos attached to this post for a (non-exhaustive) list of events planned by various institutes across India.

List of institutes in the attached posters:
-- Amity University, Punjab, 28 Feb
-- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, 26 Feb
-- IIT Tirupati, 25 Feb
-- VIT-AP, Amaravati, 28 Feb
-- Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai, 28 Feb
-- Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College for Women, 27 Feb, Kolkata
-- Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Bengaluru, 22-28 Feb
-- Regional Science Centre, Bhuj, 28 Feb
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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮), 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C V Raman on 28 February 1928.
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𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭: Check the photos attached to this post for a (non-exhaustive) list of events planned by various institutes across India.

List of institutes in the attached posters:
-- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, 26 Feb
-- Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, 22-28 Feb
-- Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, 28 Feb
-- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, 28 Feb
-- National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, 28 Feb
-- Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, 4 Mar
-- Gujarat Council of Science, Ahmedabad, 28 Feb - 4 Mar
-- Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Bengaluru, 20-25 Feb
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What kind of scientist are you?

⚛️👩‍🔬🔬👨‍🚀🔭☢️⚗️👷🌋🌏

Solving your scientific identity crisis – Physics World What kind of scientist are you? Find out with our flowchart

𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔
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𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗖/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗘𝟯 (𝗭𝗧𝗙)

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟭 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

On 1 Feb 2023, the comet is at perigee. Perigee is the point in the orbit of the comet at which it is closest to the Earth. The comet will reach its brightest magnitude as seen from earth on 1 Feb 2023.

Use the table below & image attached to locate the comet by constellation & date:
Date -- Approx Mag. -- Constellation
17 Jan 2023 -- 7.2 -- Bootes
18 Jan 2023 -- 7.1 -- Bootes
19 Jan 2023 -- 7.0 -- Bootes
20 Jan 2023 -- 6.8 -- Bootes
21 Jan 2023 -- 6.7 -- Bootes
22 Jan 2023 -- 6.6 -- Draco
23 Jan 2023 -- 6.5 -- Draco
24 Jan 2023 -- 6.4 -- Draco
25 Jan 2023 -- 6.2 -- Draco
26 Jan 2023 -- 6.1 -- Ursa Minor
27 Jan 2023 -- 6.0 -- Ursa Minor
28 Jan 2023 -- 5.9 -- Ursa Minor
29 Jan 2023 -- 5.8 -- Camelopardalis
30 Jan 2023 -- 5.7 -- Camelopardalis
31 Jan 2023 -- 5.6 -- Camelopardalis
01 Feb 2023 -- 5.6 -- Camelopardalis
02 Feb 2023 -- 5.6 -- Camelopardalis
03 Feb 2023 -- 5.6 -- Camelopardalis
04 Feb 2023 -- 5.7 -- Camelopardalis
05 Feb 2023 -- 5.8 -- Auriga
06 Feb 2023 -- 5.9 -- Auriga
07 Feb 2023 -- 6.1 -- Auriga
08 Feb 2023 -- 6.2 -- Auriga
09 Feb 2023 -- 6.3 -- Auriga
10 Feb 2023 -- 6.5 -- Ta**us
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𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 & 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

---- Try https://theskylive.com/c2022e3-info
Make sure to update your location under 'Visibility Right Now' header.
Go to the 'interactive sky chart' for the simulated sky view.
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long period comet with an orbital period of 50,000 years, meaning the comet was last visible from Earth when Neanderthals roamed the planet!

---- Comet: Comets are dusty snowballs that orbit the Sun. They are made of ices, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, mixed with dust. These materials came from the time when the Solar System was formed.

---- When a comet's orbit brings it close to the Sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from the Sun for millions of miles.

---- The current number of known comets is 3,743. There are likely billions of comets orbiting our Sun in the Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud.
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[𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠: 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝐸𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑑 – ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑖𝑛-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝑜𝑟𝑔/𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠.𝑝ℎ𝑝]

𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕.. 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕.


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𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑲𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔
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𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿
--𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀!

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 ~𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗨𝗧𝗖 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟰 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗲.
𝗭𝗛𝗥: ~𝟭𝟮𝟬-𝟭𝟱𝟬
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𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟: 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑛, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓, 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ. 𝐴𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛, 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 '3200 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛', 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑. 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑 (𝑃𝐻𝐴). 𝐴 𝑃𝐻𝐴 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟-𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 (𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡) 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡. 𝐺𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 1862.
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𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

---- ZHR: Zenith Hourly Rate, the number of meteors a single observer might see in an hour at the time-date of peak activity.

---- Meteor: Also known as a 'shooting star', is a piece of rock from space that glows as it burns up while passing through the Earth's atmosphere. The piece of rock could have been a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid.

---- Meteoroid: A small rocky or metallic body in outer space. They range in size order from millimeters to a meter. They are much smaller than asteroids and are often small fragments of asteroids.

---- Meteorite: A meteoroid when it enters the Earth's atmosphere is called a 'meteor'. If the meteor manages to survive burning through the atmosphere, a solid piece of the meteor falls to the Earth and is called a 'meteorite'. It is a piece of rock from outer space that survived a trip through our atmosphere.

---- Meteor shower: When Earth encounters many meteoroids at once, it is called a meteor shower.

---- Comet: Comets are dusty snowballs that orbit the Sun. They are made of ices, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane, mixed with dust. These materials came from the time when the Solar System was formed.

---- Asteroid: Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Although asteroids orbit the Sun like planets, they are much smaller than planets.
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[𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡: 𝑛𝑎𝑠𝑎.𝑔𝑜𝑣, 𝑆𝑘𝑦 & 𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑒, 𝑖𝑛-𝑡ℎ𝑒-𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝑜𝑟𝑔]

𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕.. 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕.


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'Beginning Astronomy: Start a data-driven journey' - 3-day national workshop, 2-4 Feb 2023 at Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS), with IUCAA and Manipal University.

Students will be introduced to some core concepts in stellar galaxy physics through hands-on computational sessions and short lectures.
Application deadline: 25 Dec 2022
Selection of Participants: 3 Jan 2023.

Link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTTqa9GnM-UZeZN4sgeRXvY23xDc1gnndltJH3Kxr1U3kceg/viewform
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