Oumuamua! As odd as the name may sound, it is that of an interstellar object that flew past our sun back in 2017. What was conspired to be an Alien messenger, a Weird space tech, and even a Spaceship, just turned out to be an Elongated pile of space rubble that did something in an environment we don't understand. Join Omkar and Nikhil on this podcast, where they talk about what Oumuamua did, what it is made of, what makes it different from a comet, and more interestingly, how it managed not...

Ancient poets used the name "Aurora" as a metaphor to refer to dawn. Some imagine that Auroras are the dancing spirits of their ancestors and some believe that they are the bridges of fire to the sky forged by the Gods. Spoiler alert, modern science does not think so. The phenomenon that causes Auroras is in fact much more dangerous and can potentially destroy the infrastructure on Earth. But our home planet has some tricks up its sleeve that help it control this and in turn, illuminates the...

On this weeks episode ,we talk about our eyes to the cosmos , our mechanical eyes -Telescopes. Join us to know how they function and expand our knowledge about our universe using EM radiation spectrum ,where each new spectrum  gives us a new perspective. We also talk about the (late) Spitzer Space Telescope, a pioneer in IR astronomy and how James webb will take over the legacy of Spitzer and Hubble in the future.