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Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrogen and ammonia with renewable energy would be sited just 5 kilometers from … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged carbon credits, Cerro Armazones, Cerro Paranal, Chile, clean energy, European Southern Observatory, Extremely Large Telescope, Mauna Kea, Science journal, SpaceX Starlink, Thirty Meter Telescope, Very Large Telescope
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Science’s humankind shield
“Science benefits all of humanity,” they say. Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged Astronomy, Colonialism, history of astronomy, Holmdel Horn, Large Hadron Collider, self-perception, settler colonialism, Thirty Meter Telescope
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They’re trying to build a telescope
If a telescope like the TMT and a big physics experiment like the INO are being stalled for failing to account for the interests and sensibilities of the people already living at or near their planned sites, what should scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Colonialism, India-based Neutrino Observatory, Thirty Meter Telescope
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Playing the devil’s advocate on Starlink
After SpaceX began to launch its Starlink satellite constellation to facilitate global internet coverage, astronomers began complaining that the satellites are likely to interfere with stargazing schemes, especially those of large, sensitive telescopes. Spaceflight stakeholders also began to worry, especially … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Challakere science city, Elon Musk, environmentalism, India-based Neutrino Observatory, ISRO, Kulasekarapattinam, low-cost internet, Mauna Kea, mega-constellation, non-rivalry, Outer Space Treaty, satellite constellation, space-based internet, SpaceX, Starlink, Sterlite, Thirty Meter Telescope, Thoothukudi
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‘World class’ optical telescope – India’s largest – to be activated near Nainital
The instrument is part of a widening foray into observational research in astronomy that India has undertaken since the 1960s, and bolstered with the successful launch of its first multi-wavelength satellite in September 2015. Continue reading
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Tagged Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Astronomy, ASTROSAT, Devasthal optical telescope, Ritchey-Chrétien design, spectroscope, Thirty Meter Telescope
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, cryo-electron microscopy, Foldscope, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Large Hadron Collider, Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment, SESAME, Thirty Meter Telescope, Udaipur Solar Observatory
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Curious Bends – WhatsApp doc, nuclear nonsense, AIDS in Mizoram and more
1. As they amass a bigger nuclear arsenal, both India and Pakistan also attend a non-proliferation conference every year “While most of the momentum behind the humanitarian initiative comes from non-nuclear weapons states, its success ultimately depends on how it influences … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahnighoto, AIDS epidemic, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mauna Kea, nuclear nonproliferation, public healthcare, seismology, Thirty Meter Telescope, Tuberculosis, US Geological Survey, WhatsApp doctors
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