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‘Our world is built on basic science, and part of basic science is rationality’  

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Not many people have the distinction of having a cosmic body named after them. Jayant Murthy, a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, is one of them. Murthy just had an asteroid named after him by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to mark his contributions to astronomy. The asteroid 2005 EX296,…

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IAU approves ‘Statio Shiv Shakti’ as name for Chandrayaan-3 landing site

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An image of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander, clicked through a Pragyan rover’s navigation camera, and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). | Photo Credit: ANI The International Astronomical Union (IAU) working group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name Statio Shiv Shakti for the landing site of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander. The approval was given…

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BlueWalker 3 satellite outshines most stars in the night sky

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Trails in the night sky left by the BlueWalker 3 satellite. In the foreground is a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona. | Photo Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/IAU/SKAO/NSF/AURA/R. An international team of scientists, including those from Imperial College London, have published a paper in Nature journal, detailing the impact of the prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite on…

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