In a first, uGMRT helps Indian astronomers detect Coronal Mass Ejection effect on pulsars thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Several scientists have closed ranks to accuse Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou) of promoting “pseudoscience” after the institute last week launched a postgraduate programme in astrology to make students “employable in the field of jyotish”.
The master’s degree programme in jyotish (MAJY), launched by the Centre-run Ignou on June 24, will be conducted through the distance mode, as are its other courses.
Advertisement
More than 1,000 scientists and academics have already signed a note that acknowledges India’s rich tradition of mathematical astronomy dating back to the Vedic period.
“However, these achievements cannot and should not be used as a proxy to justify claims that the positions of the planets somehow have an impact on anyone’s daily life, or instruments like horoscopes can actually predict anyone’s future,” the note said.
The Indian scientists will present the FRB catalogue at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week.
These FRBs are extraordinary cosmic events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in a year. They disappear in much less than the blink of an eye, according to NASA’s website.
The bright flashes of light that register in a radio band and blaze for a few milliseconds make it difficult for astronomers to track or know what causes them. To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when you point the radio dish.
CHIME telescope yields unprecedented results
Updated:
Updated:
June 10, 2021 19:50 IST
Scientific collaboration detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
Share Article
AAA
Scientific collaboration detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation Scientists with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration, who include researchers at the Pune-based Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue.
While catching sight of an FRB is considered a rare thing in the field of radio astronomy, prior to the CHIME project, radio astronomers had only caught sight of around 140 bursts in their scopes since the first FRB was spotted in 2007.
IIT Hyderabad researchers on the hunt for Einstein s waves from monster black holes edexlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edexlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.