JWST and the imagination
When the Hubble space telescope launched in April 1990, I was too young to understand what was going on – but not yesterday, when NASA launched its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Ev…
Hubble Space Telescope
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No Space Age for us
We are proud of ISRO's being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases.…
Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving.…
The pitfalls of thinking that ASTROSAT will be 'India's Hubble'
The Hubble Space Telescope needs no introduction. It's become well known for its stunning images of nebulae and star-fields, and it wouldn't be amiss to say the telescope has even become synon…
Of small steps and giant leaps of collective imagination
The Wire July 16, 2015 We may all harbour a gene that moves us to explore and find new realms of experience but the physical act of discovery has become far removed from the first principles of physi…
Hubble at 25: My picks
For the Hubble space telescope's 25th anniversary (April 24, 2015), NASA released a picture of the Westerlund 2 star cluster that the telescope shot. The image shows an expanding shell of gas lit…