National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists have designed the concept of a spacecraft that would hitch rides on comets and asteroids by spearing them with tethers.
Thank heavens for these images! From a mesmerizing panorama of the aurora borealis in Iceland to a beautiful image of Comet Neowise, the Royal Observatory's annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has again produced some truly astounding images. Run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine and now in its thirteenth year, the competition this year received over 4,500 entries from around the world. The competition winners will be announced on September 16 at an online award ceremony, and displayed in London's National Maritime Museum that same month. Here's our favourite images from this year's batch.
Gurjinder Singh scored four goals to help Chandigarh Comets crush Karnataka Lions 6-1 in an inconsequential league match of the World Series Hockey in Chandigarh on Thursday. The victory took Chandigarh past table leaders Sher-E-Punjab, who have a game left.
Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, considered an asteroid collision to be the biggest threat to the planet. At this point, we are as well prepared as dinosaurs were when a 10-km wide asteroid hit the planet 65 million years ago, notes Kumar Abishek.
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Stunning photographs have captured the Perseid meteor shower that has delighted stargazers across the world.
As it cruises toward the comet, Deep Impact will observe five nearby stars with 'transiting exosolar planets,' so named because the planet transits, or passes in front of, its star.
DSK Motowheels launched the Hyosung GT250R in India recently. The vehicle has the looks of a 650cc bike and is the biggest 250cc bike on sale in India today.
Media Foundation is organising a film appreciation series introducing the main currents in world cinema in Mumbai.
Star forward Deepak Thakur and Prabhjot Singh helped home side Sher-e-Punjab build a comfortable lead before they were forced to settle for a 3-3 draw with undefeated Pune Strykers in the World Series Hockey at the Surjit Hockey stadium on Sunday.
The Comet Media Foundation, which conducts media-related events and workshops requires an event manager.
Ponniyin Selvan has everything going for it, yet, there is something missing for a wholesome film experience, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rohena Gera's Sir competes at Cannes.
Kinetic Engineering on Tuesday launched India's most expensive motorcycle -- Comet 250 -- priced at a whopping Rs 167,000.
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The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the Royal Observatory's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 has once more received thousands of outstanding images. The competition, which is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sponsored by Insight Investment and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, is now in its eleventh year and has broken the record number of entries once more, receiving over 4,600 entries from enthusiastic amateurs and professional photographers, taken from 90 countries across the globe. The winners will be announced on September 12, and an exhibition of the winning images from the past years of the contest will be on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from September 13.
The Earth and Sky Photo Contest, organised recently by The World at Night foundation, Global Astronomy Month, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, received numerous entries that illustrated how important and amazing the starry sky is, how it affects our lives.
"Astro lovers are expected to see shooting stars whizzing past in the skies as the Perseid meteor showers will be seen on the night of August 12 to 14," Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) President C B Devgun told PTI.
Around 10 to 15 meteors per hour are expected to be seen on November 20 (as earth will encounter dust trails of 1400 AD passage of the parent comet 55P/Tempel Tuttle), as per the International Meteor Organisation (IMO).
Pune Strykers and Sher-E-Punjab will meet in the final of the Bridgestone WSH, at the Mumbai Hockey Association's Mahindra stadium on Monday. The Pune side made the grade after beating Chandigarh Comets 7-6 in the penalty shoot-out after regulation time in the second semi-final in Mumbai ended 4-4.
Bhopal Badshahs beast out Chandigarh Comets 4-3 in the inaugural match of the World Series Hockey at the sector-42 stadium in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Lion-hearted Len Aiyappa scored a hat-trick to help Karnataka Lions floor fighting Chandigarh Comets 3-2 on day seven of the World Series Hockey in Bangalore, on Tuesday.
Read the story doing the rounds about a destructive asteroid smashing into earth next month? Well, NASA says it is not going to happen, FOR SURE!
In what sounds like a chilling script of a Hollywood science fiction, scientists have claimed that an invisible star, five times the size of Jupiter, might be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking deadly comets towards the Earth.
Indian Institute of Astrophysics' (IIA) Integrated M.Tech, PhD in Astronomical instrumentation.
Six labourers were killed after a poisonous gas leaked from a ceramic unit near Morbi town in Rajkot on Saturday, the police said. The incident occurred early this morning at Comet Ceramic Company when six labourers entered an underground tank for cleaning.
Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space.
Comet Media Foundation is organising a workshop for students and young professionals on digital media.
England's football star David Beckham and his family stepped out in full force to cheer his son Romeo, who took part in the London Marathon.
A meteor shower consists of particles left behind by comets, which are made up of dirty snow and ice.
A team of researchers has revealed that the old adage "what goes up must come down" is ringing true for an immense cloud of hydrogen gas that is heading towards our galaxy at nearly 7 lakh miles per hour.
In his first interview, after the launch of MOM in Mars orbit, ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan spoke to T E Narasimhan about the mission and the way forward.
The planet Mercury will transit the Sun as viewed from Earth.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's lift-off from Earth on April 24, here are some of the cosmic wonders it has captured over its lifetime.
The app, Fireballs in the Sky, was developed by the Desert Fireball Network, a Curtin University project designed to track meteorites as they fall to Earth, by capturing meteors and fireballs on camera, in collaboration with ThoughtWorks, and Curtin Geoscience Outreach.
Chhichhore offers too good a time to pay attention to its faults, feels Sukanya Verma.
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