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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!
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
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Om Shanti 🙏 ....big loss for Indian astronomy and science.

#GovindSwarup
Govind Swarup was a pioneer in radio astronomy.

He was the key scientist behind concept, design and installation of the Ooty Radio Telescope and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune.

Govind Swarup was 91.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govind_Sw… @TIFRScience @NCRA_Outreach Image
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