Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) concluded the second edition of the Square Kilometre Array India Training School (SKAITS-II) on Tuesday.The two-week programme was held at the Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering (SPASE) and featured academic engagement and hands-on training. Students, researchers and experts from across the country…
In the summer of 1967, a 24-year-old PhD student at the University of Cambridge noticed something unusual hidden within mountains of radio telescope data. The signal appeared as a regular pulse, repeating with astonishing precision and refusing to fit any known astronomical explanation. For months, scientists struggled to understand what they were seeing, even joking…
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered an unusual, regularly pulsing radio signal. This led to the identification of pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars, a previously theoretical celestial body. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Looking into the heavens in the middle part of the twentieth century did not always require viewing the starry night through a glass…
