by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
NASA launched the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on December 9, 2021 onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE observatory is a joint effort of NASA and the Italian Space Agency. According to NASA, the mission will study...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
Launch After a long delay (the launch was originally due in 2007), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was at last launched on December 25, 2021 by the powerful Ariane 5 rocket of the European Space Agency from its spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana. The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. LIGO’s original gravitational wave detectors (called Initial LIGO or...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 8, 2022 | Astronomy and Space Research
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its first mission of 2022 on February 14, 2022, by putting Earth Observation Satellite-04, (EOS-4) into orbit onboard the Polar Satellite launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C52). This is the 23rd flight of PSLV...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 16, 2022 | Astronomy and Space Research
Pluto lies in the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Smaller than Earth’s Moon, Pluto has a heart-shaped glacier of the size of Texas and Oklahoma. It has fascinating world with blue skies, spinning moons, the Rockies high...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 19, 2022 | Astronomy and Space Research
Indian scientists from the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) have recently discovered an exoplanet, named HD82139b, which is 1.4 times bigger than Jupiter, has a mass of 1.5 times of Sun, and located 725 light-years away from the Earth. Exoplanets are...
