2013 നവംബര് മാസം നമുക്ക് ഒരു ആകാശക്കാഴ്ച കാണാന് കഴിഞ്ഞേക്കും. ഇത്തവണ സൂര്യന്റെ അതിഥിയായി എത്തുന്നത് ഒരു ധൂമകേതുവാണ് . Comet ISON എന്നു പേരിട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു ധൂമകേതു. 2012 സെപ്തംബറിലാണ് ഈ ധൂമകേതുവിനെ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞര് കണ്ടെത്തുന്നത്. സഞ്ചരിച്ചു സഞ്ചരിച്ച് ഇപ്പോള് വ്യാഴത്തിന്റെ അടുത്തുകൂടിയാണ് ISON ന്റെ സഞ്ചാരം. നല്ല ടെലിസ്കോപ്പ് ഉണ്ടെങ്കില് ഇപ്പോള് വ്യാഴത്തിനടുത്തായി ഈ വാല്നക്ഷത്രത്തെ കണ്ടെത്താം! ഇപ്പോഴുള്ള അറിവുകള് വച്ച് ഒരു കിലോമീറ്റര് മുതല് 10 കിലോമീറ്റര് വരെ വലിപ്പം ഈ [...]
AASTRO Trivandrum Chapter will have its monthly lecture for December on this Thursday evening.Shri.P K Ramachandran will lead the session over the topic ‘Solar System’. AASTRO will pay tributes to Astronomy Popularisation icon Sir Patrick Moore who passed away last week.A commemoration talk will be delivered by Shri.Krishna Warrier who [...]
The monthly session of AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram was conducted on 5th January at its usual venue and time. This time it was a talk lead by Dr. Ajith Prasad from M G College on ‘Extraplanetary objects in the solar system’. Usually the word ‘solar system’ brings to our mind the sun and the eight planets around [...]
Astronomers have announced the discovery of 50 new planetsorbiting stars like our sun, and one of these — named HD85512b — is generating excitement among scientists as a possible candidate for harboring life. This extraordinary haul of new planets, made by a team of astronomers using data gathered at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, [...]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched almost two years ago in an Earth trailing Solar Orbit, has detected an entire solar system around a star similar to the Sun designated Kepler-11 about two thousand light years from Earth.
Five of the planets, ranging from 2.3 to 13.5 times the mass of the Earth, are orbiting Kepler-11 in [...]
Jupiter has lost one of its prominent stripes, leaving its southern half looking unusually blank. Scientists are not sure what triggered the disappearance of the band.Jupiter’s appearance is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere – one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.But recent images taken by amateur astronomers [...]
AASTRO Kerala Thrissur chapter inaugurated yesterday here by by Prof K Pappootty CMS Higher Secondary School, Thrissur on a function presided by eminent amateur astronomer and AASTRO Thrissur Chapter Chairman Shri.P R Chandramohan.District coordinator Shri.K S Sudheer gave the welcome address and Shri.Venugopalan delivered vote of thanks.Astronomy and science popularisation activists ,teachers,students and public from various parts of [...]
The planet Saturn reached opposition this past weekend, rising as the sun sets and making its closest approach to Earth this year. The planet saunters across Virgo over the next few weeks: it’s the brightest object between the stars Porrima in Virgo and Denebola in Leo. Saturn is truly one of the prettiest sights you can [...]
