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Tech Meet 2021

Science from Space: Visualizing AstroSat's Data

Students of IIT Kharagpur won gold in Inter IIT Tech meet 2021 for developing a web tool for visualizing ISRO's AstroSat's data. Their tool called NaxTara is a virtual planetarium that displays cosmic sources associated with AstroSat.

Astrophysics

Relativity and Black Holes- The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2020 Nobel prize in Physics was shared by Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel for studies related to black holes. While Penrose proved that Black holes can exist under general relativity, the latter two discovered a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

IIT Bombay

Using the Stars for Guidance: IIT-B Satellite Team innovates

The story of Satellite Program, IIT Bombay - their achievements till date, followed by the development of their latest innovation: STADS.

IIT Bombay

Tracing Gravitational Waves

Probing the genesis of gravitational waves is the next step after detecting them. Taking up this formidable task is a special global group of which India is a part - GROWTH.

Tech

Code for the Stars: Programming the world's largest telescope

This isn't so much a story about the Thirty Meter Telescope - an event that astronomers around the world wait for with baited breath - as the technology that's helping build it: software and hardware with a distinctively Indian flavour.

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