In 1995, NASA and the European Space Agency came together for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission, which was placed at the L1 point of the Earth-sun system, similar to what ISRO intends to do with Aditya-L1. However, many Indian solar physicists believe the Aditya-L1 mission and its payloads are far superior compared to NASA-ESA’s SOHO. “During an eclipse, the …
NEW DELHI: Astronomy enthusiasts turned their gaze towards the sun as the moon started to cover the solar disc as a partial solar eclipse began on Tuesday. The partial solar eclipse is being observed in several parts of the country with Srinagar witnessing the maximum obscuration of the solar disc at 55 per cent. A partial solar eclipse will occur …
Scientists for the first time have spotted a Moon-forming region around a planet beyond our solar system - a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disk of gas and dust massive enough that it could spawn three moons the size of the one orbiting Earth. The researchers used the ALMA observatory in Chile's Atacama desert to detect the disk of swirling …
