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Astronomy outreach
@asipoec
Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of India. Primarily (and presently) being curated by @aniket_sule
Feb 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Mahashivratri had NOTHING to do with "astronomical phase of the planet". In fact, astronomical phase of the planet is not even a real thing. No special astronomical alignment happens on this day.
Do not, even for a moment, believe the #pseudoscience being peddled by @SadhguruJV As some people like to know more information about this, here are some points worth considering.
1. given that our luni-solar calenders have to add Adhika Maasa every 2.5 years, the earth's location w.r.t. sun and stars is not the same every year's mahashivratri.
Apr 9, 2019 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
We hit the max limit of posts to the previous twitter thread on @ehtelescope ... so do read that first and then follow us here ... How the gas circles around 2 fall into the BH, the reason why our galactic #EHTBlackHole is weaker than other of similar mass and why huge relativistic jets launched by BH like in M87 are all not well know. @ehtelescope images should answer some of them eventhorizontelescope.org/science
Apr 9, 2019 • 26 tweets • 16 min read
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?