I have always been fascinated by what the skies looked like to the naked eye before the artificial lights flooded the planet. How spectacular would the skies have been? My first conscious effort to gaze upon the skies started from Coimbatore. Astronomers use the ‘Bortle’ scale that rates the sky from a location from 1 …
For a lot of kids, Science is hard, and Math is even harder. In our education system’s framework, all students, regardless of their ability to learn, are strengthened and tested mostly on their memory and content reproduction skills, and not on understanding the concepts. The very nature of this framework is the reason for majority …
The sky has plentiful wonders. Among them, solar eclipses are one of the most popular. When we see the sun or the moon waning out of view in a matter of a few hours, a sense of wonder and curiosity is kindled. They constantly remind us of the enormousness and liveliness of our solar system. …
The land of passes Visiting Ladakh has been on my mind for many years. As I grew up, the reasons for the visit changed, but the destination did not. Reasons ranged from wanting to see snow, experiencing snowfall to visiting higher altitude places to seeing glacial melt rivers. Also, it has been my recent obsession …
When I was in 10th grade, a star gazing session was arranged in my school. There was a low turnout, which I guess, was partly because it was in the early morning hours of the day at around 2 AM in winter, and maybe partly because, it wasn’t exciting enough. Nevertheless, for me it turned …
On a fine morning in June 2015, a team of scientists at Cosmic Ray Laboratory (CRL), Ooty, went ecstatic, as they observed a burst of Galactic Cosmic Rays following a Coronal Mass Ejection event. I could only imagine the upbeat mood of the scientists at the CRL facility when they ran through these observations! After …
The Battle of Magnetic Fields: Observations at Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Ooty, India) Read More »
There are certainly those moments in everyone’s life that would be strongly etched in the hearts for a lifetime. I was fortunate to have been a part of the Winter School of Astroparticle Physics (WAPP 2016) organised by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Cosmic Ray Laboratory (CRL), Ooty. This write-up is not about …
For us Coimbatoreans, whenever we feel bored, or have an unplanned holiday, or sometimes for no reason at all, we just pack our bags, get on our bikes and drift towards Ooty. Sometimes we go just to have a cup of tea. Ooty is much more than a neighboring district to us. It is a …
