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The Drama of the Solar System — Final Scene
POST 4:: #astronomyatschool #astronomywithrahul #astronomy #sciencepopularization #popularscience #CosmosMusings There are a few questions that are often asked by children during the interactive session after a popular lecture. The two most common are (1) How and when will the world come to an end and (2) Are we alone in the universe. So, that is what…
Saturn & Enceladus, an endearing relationship
Post 3:: #astronomyatschool #astronomywithrahul #astronomy #sciencepopularization #popularscience #CosmosMusings Listen to this blog on the go. Listening time 7:16 | Original background music by Ishanee Chatterjee My fascination with Saturn will never ebb. Ever since I saw the last picture of Saturn taken by the Voyager spacecraft, years ago, I’ve just fallen in love with the…
Mercury was recently retrograde. What does it mean?
Post 2 :: #astronomyatschool #astronomywithrahul #astronomy #sciencepopularization #popularscience Men have been looking up at the skies ever since they roamed the earth. Intelligent ancient civilizations like the Indians, Egyptians, Arabs, Mayans and others noticed certain ‘stars’ were brighter than the others and that they moved across the sky night after night. These moving stars were called planets. But something was…
Caloris Basin in Mercury
POST 1 #astronomyatschool #astronomywithrahul #astronomy #sciencepopularization #popularscience This is the spectacular Caloris Basin in the planet Mercury. The absence of a thick atmosphere (it is too small, and too hot during the day, to have an atmosphere) on the planet leaves it exposed to space debris and hence the surface of Mercury is riddled with…
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