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Astronomical Society of Dharmaraja College (ASDRC) – Competitions

There are two types of competitions conducted by the ASDRC. Two groups of competitors are tested by them. First is Dharmaraja College students. Students in grade 6 and above are tested and rated periodically to keep the standards of their knowledge. The idea beind that is promoting the knowledge as well as building a strong [...]

Introduction to general relativity – Astrophysical applications

Models based on general relativity play an important role in astrophysics, and the success of these models is further testament to the theory’s validity. Gravitational lensing Since light is deflected in a gravitational field, it is possible for the light of a distant object to reach an observer along two or more paths. For instance, [...]

Nuclear astrophysics – History

The basic principles of explaining the origin of the elements and the energy generation in stars were laid down in the theory of nucleosynthesis which came together in the late 1950s from the seminal works of Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle in a famous paper and independently by Cameron. Fowler is largely credited with initiating [...]

Astrophysics and Space Science – Introduction

Astrophysics and Space Science is a peer reviewed academic journal in the field of astrophysics and space science. It publishes original contributions, invited reviews and conference proceedings over the entire range of astronomy, astrophysics and space science. This includes observational and theoretical papers as well as those concerned with the techniques of instrumentation. Adapted from [...]

Chris Lintott – Academic background

He attended Torquay Boys’ Grammar School in Devon, whilst living in Churston Ferrers. Whilst at school, in 1999, he won a $500 Earth and Space Sciences award and the Priscilla and Bart Bok Honorable Mention Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for an article on ”Dust Around Young Stellar Objects”. This came [...]

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope – Introduction

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Non-standard cosmology – Introduction

non-standard cosmology is any physical cosmological model of the universe that has been, or still is, proposed as an alternative to the big bang model of (standard) physical cosmology. In the history of cosmology, various scientists and researchers have disputed parts or all of the big bang due to a rejection or addition of fundamental [...]

Nuclear astrophysics – Predictions

The theory of stellar nucleosynthesis reproduces the chemical abundances observed in the solar system and galaxy, which from hydrogen to uranium, show an extremely varied distribution spanning twelve orders of magnitude (one trillion). While impressive, these data were used to formulate the theory, and a scientific theory must be predictive in order to have any [...]

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics – Introduction

Astrophysics

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) is a national research institute funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, located at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. CITA’s mission is “to foster interaction within the Canadian theoretical Astrophysics community and to serve as an international center of excellence for theoretical studies in [...]

Stellar evolution – Introduction

Stellar Evolution

Stellar evolution is the process by which a star undergoes a sequence of radical changes during its lifetime. Depending on the mass of the star, this lifetime ranges from only a few million years (for the most massive) to trillions of years (for the least massive, which is considerably more than the age of the [...]

Shrinivas Kulkarni – Introduction

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Shrinivas R. Kulkarni FRS is a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology. He is on the Space Interferometry Mission science team and is the director of optical observatories at California Institute of Technology, including Palomar and Keck. Kulkarni is the brother of Sudha Murty. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Shrinivas [...]

Astrophysics Data System – Software and hardware

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The software runs on a system that was written specifically for it, allowing for extensive customization for astronomical needs that would not have been possible with general purpose database software. The scripts are designed to be as platform independent as possible, given the need to facilitate mirroring on different systems around the world, although the [...]









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