A Delhi boy has discovered a new comet using data from NASA and European Space Agency's spacecraft-based observatory SOHO that studies the Sun.
The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) above Earth's surface at around 6.56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said.
Avid sky watchers were in for a treat as a partial lunar eclipse occurred in the night sky theatre on Thursday. The earth's shadow swept past the moon turning a yellow shining full moon into a dim red one.
The astrophotography community in India is a fast-growing one.