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The Gargantua Times, an astronomy blog, is an initiative started by three young astronomy enthusiasts from the subcontinent. You can consider it as your virtual astronomy club - where you can learn about black holes, interesting theories, deep-sky objects, and about many more fascinating topics.
The Gargantua Times
3y ago
This article is all about what we can’t see and why we can’t see what we can’t see, that’s all. Let’s stop the wordplay now and dive into today’s topic – “Tidal Locking Of The Moon.” We are all aware that there is a “far side of the moon.” The far side is invisible from ..read more
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3y ago
The standard model of particle physics constitutes all the particles and forces (except gravity) that are found in the universe. We are all aware that the atom consists of protons, neutrons and electrons. These particles are termed as the subatomic particles. All the elements are made up of different number of protons, neutrons and electrons ..read more
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3y ago
“Maybe one day you’ll understand whyeverything you touch surely dies.” These are very famous and very touching lyrics by Passenger. And although I am not sure about the former part, the latter is certainly true. The world, as we see presently, was just a puddle of gas some billions of years ago. The abundant elements ..read more
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3y ago
Learn about what lagrange points are how they are useful to us ..read more
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3y ago
Recently, astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star 60 times closer than Earth does the Sun, rightfully dubbed as Ultrahot Neptune. As the alias suggests, the planet is extremely hot, but surprisingly possesses a thick atmosphere. Another exoplanet made it to the news because of its orbital period around the host star being 3.14 ..read more
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3y ago
In the article of Special Relativity we concluded that light always travels at light speed in vacuum which led us to a bizarre conclusion: even if you chase a light ray at light speed, you will see that the ray still moves further from you at light speed (300 million metres per second). Another conclusion ..read more
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3y ago
The solar cycle 25 is finally here! Did you know that our Sun’s magnetic field completely flips every 11 years or so? It is a periodic change and hence, is better known as the solar cycle or the solar magnetic activity cycle. These cycles are tracked by keeping a count of the number of sunspots ..read more
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3y ago
Image: Scene from Passengers (2016) So recently I had this thought for no reason. I mean really no reason at all… I can’t even swim. But still, can we swim in space? Is it possible for us? Let’s check out Well, there’s two options. Air or Water. This means whether you wanna swim in air ..read more
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3y ago
An international team of astrophysicists has detected a molecule, phosphine, in the atmosphere of Venus which indicates the presence of microbial life. The team of astronomers published their findings on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. This discovery puts Venus in the limelight for the search of biological traces of life.The findings are not explicit ..read more
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3y ago
This is a guest post by Utkarsh Sahai. Spooky action at a distance Someday someone asked me what is the most absurd physics phenomenon according to me? I was not able to answer that time but now when I think about it, I feel I should have answered Quantum Entanglement. So what is Quantum Entanglement ..read more