I am craving for the time when our universities will be flooded with students keen for submission into courses of astronomy and allied sciences; a time when our industry will be in equal awe of the real gems of the society, willing and eager to work in such industries and convert these industries into the world-ranking units of space sciences; and our sparkling young men and women as the pioneers, like the intrepid sailors of the bygone...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan forward Kaleemullah Khan has signed up with United Soccer League (USL) side Tulsa Roughnecks according to the Oklahoma based club’s official website...
“I am extremely humbled by the opportunity that has been given to me by Tulsa...
In observational astronomy, however, the two main seasons are summer and winter...
nThe writer is a former planetarium head and an internationally renowned astronomer and astronomy writer and can be reached at [email protected]
WHERE we are now is the border line between astronomy and astro-physics...
Quite a rewarding journey too! The language of astronomy is the same as the language of astro-physics...
Just like them astronomy has its terms, and these terms, or the idiom are different from those used in, say, botany, zoology or medicine...
So it is important for you to take note of the terminology employed in astronomy...
It will launch you into astronomy, whether boys or girls...
The ‘is’ will be revealed a bit later — a few billion years from now!Instead of closing our discussion on complex things in astronomy, at this stage, a whole ‘Pandora’s Box’ is revealed! For better understanding we ought to know a myriad terminology employed in astronomy and astro-physics...
Abubaker Shekhani, an astronomy enthusiast and founding member of the Karachi Astronomers Society, said that this year’s supermoon was not as great in size as the November supermoon of last year...
”WE apply ourselves to scrapping into astronomy, astrophysics and related sciences in a way that will make us understand them in detail as never before...
CarcinogenALTHOUGH it is any substance that causes cancer, and cannot be said to be related to astronomy, I will tell you how they are profoundly related to it...
You lie down in your sleeping bags under a blanket of bright, twinkling stars and find it hard to close your eyes, because what if you miss something?This year I first contacted the astronomy club...
Quite inexplicably ‘they’ are building the new Karachi-Lahore motorway on the Super Highway instead of mapping out an independent route for it, like the Islamabad-Lahore motorway...
It combines astronomy, astro-physics, particle physics and mathematics as a mosaic for better understanding of our universe...
WE have covered quite a long distance in our journey across the realm of astronomy...
Like any fateful journey, the journey of astronomy begins with the first step (misquoting the famous Chinese proverb to suit my purpose)...
DEFINITIONS and introduction of each of astronomy’s everyday items (chapters) is as important as limbs are to the human body...
That is the reason why I took up the parlance, to introduce to you (and others) the basic elements, through the history of astronomy and how gingerly it advanced through the last four centuries...
HAVING gone through a reasonable extent of astronomy, and a little of the history of science, we must move on...
WASHINGTON: A mysterious star located about 1,500 light-years from the Earth has stirred controversy due to unusual fluctuations of light, leading some to theorise that an alien civilisation could have been found...
Not so fast, said Nasa
WE shall begin from where we left off...
The Big Crunch, interesting as it was, it sent us spinning through the roof! However, there is yet more to come