NASA praises ISRO, offers training for Indian astronauts
The world’s largest space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now seeks to partner with the Indian Space Research Organisation for future space endeavours and has offered that India could use its top class facilities [...]
China sends its first female astronaut into space
China on Saturday launched its most ambitious space mission to date, sending its first female astronaut into orbit and bidding to achieve the country’s first manual space docking.
Shenzhou-9 – China’s fourth manned space mission [...]
PSLV-C18 successfully sends 4 satellites to orbit
India’s PSLV-C18 soars into space with Megha-Tropiques satellite on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
India’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18), which will put into orbit the Megha-Tropiques satellite and three nano [...]
IIT Students’ Satellite ‘Jugnu’ Launched into Space
A nano-satellite built by students of IIT Kanpur, ‘Jugnu’, was launched with the latest version of India’s indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from Sriharikota, Andhra [...]
Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station
Psychedelic Space Redux
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth.
Space station hardware in the foreground includes [...]
Transit may shine light on enduring mysteries of Venus
Experts want to know what happened to oceans? Why a super-fast atmosphere? And so on
Skywatchers around the world will get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Venus cross in front of the sun Tuesday. The so-called transit of Venus is more than [...]
Mysterious Arc of Venus hoped to appear during transit
An armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes will be on the lookout for something elusive and, until recently, unexpected, when Venus transits the sun on June 5th and 6th.
Astronomers are all set to observe The Arc of Venus using 9 coronagraphs [...]
NASA’s Transit of Venus Sun-Earth Day Event!
Even if you don’t see a single picture from the transit, you’ve got to appreciate the role that the event has played over the centuries in planetary science. These two videos tell you more about the history of transit observations:
Transit [...]
Transit of Venus App Enables Cosmic Calculations
A built-in timer allows users to calculate the length of the planet’s shadow on the solar disk to reproduce an experiment done in the 19th century with less precise instruments
On June 5-6, amateur and professional astronomers alike will [...]
Astronomers spot the faintest ever galaxy
Newfound galaxy secures spot among top 10 most distant known objects in space. Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light [...]
