Today at school, one of my good friends informed me about the sudden appearance of a large Mars in the sky in the days to come. Well, I knew this could not happen even if there was some miracle (I ain't counting miracles of the epic type!). So, I proceeded to explain why this cannot … Continue reading Rumors about Mars →

Black holes. A shudder goes down the spine of every person at the very thought of this thing. Its a thing whose gravity is so immense that not even light, the fastest thing in the universe (barring the quantum entanglement phenomena), can escape it. It emerges naturally from Einstein's famous theory of General Relativity. Black … Continue reading Hawking’s New Black Hole Insight →

Politics. The typical students nightmare. Its pretty much hard to understand when you're studying it (except if you have got a great teacher)! But, the nail in the coffin regarding political situations and its effects on students comes from the turmoils and anxieties that are occurring within the city, region, state, nation and so on. Recently, … Continue reading Political Anxieties and Its Effect on Students →

Ever since ancient times, human beings have been fascinated by the heavens (possibly the billionth time I'm saying this!). The annual cycle of visible stars served as a stable pattern from which human beings could decipher fundamental cycles of importance to them, such as the migration of different planets and the onset of the different … Continue reading Constellations →

Image of the moon DioneThe Cassini mission was launched all the way back in 1997 with the sole purpose of broadening our knowledge of the ringed planet Saturn. It arrived at the Saturnian system in 2004, after a seven-year long planetary cruise. The Cassini mission included the Cassini spacecraft, and the Huygens lander, which was … Continue reading The Cassini Mission →

Reality and expectations are two wholly different things, yet they can be brought together to co-incide. So, what are expectations? Expecting something basically means the belief that you can do it/ you can get it/ you can overcome it. I can expect to become an astronomer in the future, but is it always necessary that … Continue reading Expectations, Mistakes, Dreams and Reality →