Posts Tagged ‘ISRO’

“We Can Measure Neutron Stars Now”- India

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It may now be possible to measure the size of  neutron stars now, as claimed by Sudip Bhattacharjee and his team from Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. There are billions of neutron stars in the galaxy. Most of these have diameters of approx. 10 kms and are more than 10,000 light years away from [...]

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Doubts Over Pokhran-II Cleared

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Clearing the air off every possible doubt regarding the failure of the Pokhran-II tests, India’s ambitious space project, Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and R. Chidambaram, AEC Chairman in 1998 and now Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union government, revealed that there is absolutely no need for “peer review. It’s an [...]

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First Day, First Show!

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Today  Sapped comes to life. However, the Indian sun proved a lot more merrier than the Indians themselves. While at one side of the world, Indians were rejoicing the birth of a new era with the discovery of water (H2O) by Chandrayan 1 which happens to be the first time solid proofs were collected by [...]

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