Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin told us what the Universe is made of but she was largely forgotten.
Tag: Science
This week in science: Philae was found and OSIRIS-REx is travelling to Bennu!
(Published in The Nation Pakistan)
The landing of the orbiter and the search for it also gave scientists plenty of lessons for future missions. Now, on September 30, Rosetta will come very close to the comet, make some critical observations and then will descend on to the surface.
The Wanderer has a new friend: Juno visits Jupiter
Humans now have spacecraft orbiting Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter and Saturn.
In search of Einstein’s gravitational waves
(Published in The Nation Pakistan)
It has been a hundred years since Einstein proposed GR, stating that spacetime was curved due to the presence of massive bodies, which change this curvature as they move. This successfully explained and predicted additional physical phenomena, which would be later confirmed through experimentation. For a century this theory has passed every test.
One prediction of GR has been elusive however. That is, the direct proof for gravitational waves – ripples or fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime – caused by accelerating masses – which transport energy as gravitational radiation.