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Congratulations Mangalyaan Team, Congratulations India!

Posted on October 4, 2014 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti  After a long journey of 300 days in the vacuum of space, Mangalyaan, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission was finally captured by the gravity of Mars. A nation heaved a sigh of relief, yours truly included. Congratulations followed … Continue reading →

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Apollo 13

Posted on September 2, 2014 by ST Editors

by S. Prasad Ganti By 1970, man had been to the moon twice on successful Apollo 11 and 12 missions.  Jim Lovell the commander had dreamt for a long time to set his foot on the moon. Midway to the … Continue reading →

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The Mysterious Neutrino

Posted on July 18, 2014 by ST Editors

by S. Prasad Ganti The first half of twentieth century was a very interesting period for particle physics. All the matter in this Universe can be broken down into atoms and atoms were found to contain subatomic particles called electrons, … Continue reading →

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Chandra

Posted on May 29, 2014 by ST Editors

by S. Prasad Ganti The name Chandra brings two things to the minds of those who are inclined towards astrophysics and cosmology. One is the Chandrasekhar limit, which is equivalent to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. Stars weighing … Continue reading →

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Constants of our Universe

Posted on May 3, 2014 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti Life on Earth came into existence because of some favorable factors. Earth is located in our solar system at the right distance from the Sun where we get the light and heat for the sustenance of life, … Continue reading →

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Gravity

Posted on March 31, 2014 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti “Gravity”, the science fiction movie released a few months back, won accolades at the Oscar awards ceremony this year. It won 7 academy awards-for Best Visual effects, Best Sound mixing, Best Sound editing, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, … Continue reading →

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India’s Space Program

Posted on March 1, 2014 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti I am a proud Indian American and enthusiastic and proud of both American and Indian space programs. India launched a mission to Mars a few months back. The orbiter called “Mangalyaan” (Mars craft) is enroute to Mars … Continue reading →

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My Respects to Fred Hoyle

Posted on February 2, 2014 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti One of the human weakness is to get carried away with the negatives associated with a human being and not make a balanced assessment of one’s capabilities. Something similar happened to Fred Hoyle, the great astrophysicist. He … Continue reading →

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Mangalyaan – India’s Passage to Mars

Posted on November 30, 2013 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti In the wake of the recent launch of MAVEN, the latest NASA mission to Mars, India’s space program is largely unknown to rest of the world, at least in the popular media.  At the beginning of November, … Continue reading →

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The Higgs Boson, Relativity and Gravity Waves

Posted on November 7, 2013 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to Peter Higgs of the UK and Francois Englert of Belgium for postulating a theory that predicted the Higgs boson. Nicknamed the “God Particle”, the Higgs boson is associated … Continue reading →

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No More Peeping into a Telescope

Posted on October 1, 2013 by ST Editors

by Prasad Ganti The word “telescope” conjures an image of a long scope with lenses or mirrors and an eyepiece to peep in to see the light collected by the lenses and mirrors. Well, this is the traditional optical telescope, … Continue reading →

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Construction of our Universe

Posted on September 3, 2013 by ST Editors

by S. Prasad Ganti The greatest achievement of Cosmology in the last hundred years has been the Big Bang theory. How it was formulated and how it was proved. For most of the time human beings spent on the Earth, … Continue reading →

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