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On the birth anniversary of #JagadisChandraBose, I proudly remember the moment in 2012 when, as the Head of Physics at #PresidencyUniversityKolkata, I received, along with VC Malabika Sarkar, the #IEEE #MilestonePlaque recognising Bose's seminal contribution to microwave research 
Dr Peter Staeker, then President-Elect of IEEE, had flown from New York to confer this honour. This was the first #IEEE plaque given to an Indian Institution. Later the same day, a second such milestone plaque was presented to IACS to commemorate the work done by C V Raman there
I am delighted to note that the #IEEE has now announced that the 3rd milestone plaque to be awarded to India would be to the #GMRT #GiantMetrewaveRadioTelescope, built by the late @govindswarup & his colleagues #NCRA-TIFR in #Pune led by @yash_gupta_62. Wish #Swarup were with us!
It is a Diwali tradition at IUCAA that second year students will choose the annual theme, and decorate IUCAA with traditional diyas and rangoli, but with a contemporary twist. All students and postdocs at IUCAA team up to create this Diwali magic.
Happy Deepavali everybody!
Happy Deepavali everybody!
This year's Nobel Prize is depicted by two thousand oil lamps (diyas) in the @iucaapune Kund. In the upper half are some of the stellar orbits around the #SupermassiveBlackHole at the centre of our Galaxy that got #AndreaGhez and #ReinhardGenzel the #NobelPrizePhysics this year.
At the bottom left is an example if a #PenroseDiagram, one of the neat mathematical tools created by #RogerPenrose another #NobelLaureate this year
So let us look at some #space and ground-based telescopes that give us information about #pulsars via #multiwavelengthastronomy
Most gamma rays coming from space are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so the telescopes are space based. The @fermitelescope & Integral missions have discovered many gamma-ray pulsars
In addition to the X-ray telescopes such as @chandraxray & @NASANuSTAR, the recently launched #NICER mission will help us probe the pulsar interior (I will explain this tomorrow)
We are saddened by the passing away of Professor Govind Swarup-The Father of Indian Radio Astronomy. Many of us from the astronomy community had the pleasure of closely interacting and learning from him. His legacy lives on in the form of large indigenous & international..
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..state-of-the-art major scientific facilities like the #GMRT and #ORT on Indian soil. Professor Swarup took keen interest in, and had been very encouraging and supportive of the @LIGOIndia gravitational wave observatory under construction. We feel inspired by him to..
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..continue this legacy which has paved the way for upcoming mega-science projects like LIGO India.
-Prof. Tarun Souradeep @TarunSouradeep
Spokesperson, LIGO-India
-Prof. Tarun Souradeep @TarunSouradeep
Spokesperson, LIGO-India
The Event Horizon Telescope will be announcing its results at 6.30 pm IST on 10th April. The @ehtelescope is trying to image the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the centre for our Milky Way, so this is going to be big news indeed! This is a thread on the #EHTBlackHole
You can watch the press conference live at nsf.gov/news/special_r… and
. Press note on #EHTBlackHole at nsf.gov/news/news_summ… & eso.org/public/announc…. Why are we all excited about this? What will the @ehtelescope announce? How can we image a black hole?
. Press note on #EHTBlackHole at nsf.gov/news/news_summ… & eso.org/public/announc…. Why are we all excited about this? What will the @ehtelescope announce? How can we image a black hole?
Will they show us a blurry image of #EHTBlackHole where we can't make out anything, like xkcd.com/2133/, or something that will make us gasp in awe, like bbc.com/news/science-e…? Follow this thread to figure out the why, how and what ...
