In our "Hello, Astrophysicist!" segment, we interact with some of the finest Astrophysicists and talk about lots of exciting and informative stuff. In the first episode, we featured Prof. Debarati Chatterjee, a theoretical Astrophysicist, Associate Professor at IUCAA, and the Chairperson of LIGO-India Outreach. Her research focuses on Compact Objects, specifically Neutron Stars, and she tries to understand the mysterious behavior of these celestial objects that are a source of Gravitational...

Betelgeuse is classified as a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2  and is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. A supernova is the explosive death of a star in an event so violent that for a brief period that single star shines as brightly as a whole galaxy of more than a hundred billion ordinary stars like the Sun.  This is a relatively rare event.  When this happens, Betelgeuse will brighten enormously for a few weeks or months, perhaps becoming as bright as the full moon, and...

Extraterrestrial life/intelligent life sometimes colloquially referred to as alien life, is hypothetical life that may occur outside Earth and which did not originate on Earth. For millennia, humans have gazed in wonder at the stars, trying to understand their nature and importance. We developed telescopes only a few hundred years ago, and since then the dimensions of our observable universe have expanded exponentially with technological advances and the insights of quantum physics and...

The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between any two given gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion whereby the scale of space itself changes. An extra dose of dark energy in the early universe, dubbed early dark energy, could reconcile the conflicting values of the Hubble constant. The outward pressure of this early dark energy would have sped up the universe’s expansion.

Stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation (nucleosynthesis) of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen, helium, and lithium during the Big Bang.

2021 REWIND of the highlights from the field of astronomy.  Gravitational lensing: When light passes one of these objects, such as a cluster of galaxies, its path is changed slightly. This effect, called gravitational lensing, is only visible in rare cases and only the best telescopes can observe the related phenomena. Smaller objects, like individual stars, can also act as gravitational lenses when they pass in front of more distant stars.

In this episode, we are featuring Varun Nikam (IG | @varun.nikam22)

For thousands of years, humans have been trying to figure out the universe and determine its true extent. And there have been a lot of assumptions and theories. during the 1960s, astronomers became aware of microwave background radiation that was detectable in all directions. Known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the existence of this radiation has helped to hone our understanding of how the Universe began. The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is faint electromagnetic...

Something really significant for the field of astronomy was announced last week on december 14th. For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission is revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun,...

Our latest episode is about the most ambitious, complex and the largest telescope ever built by humans . JWST is said to be a time machine which will lead us back to our origin. The James Webb has taken around 30 years and 10 billion $ to develop and it is be bing described as one of the grand scientific endeavour of 21st century. Webb is an outcome of thousands of scientists, engineers and others who have toiled day and night to make it reality.

We wind up the season of Stars with Star Death.

Aman and Swaetha talk about Star Dust and Galaxy Formation.

This was the episode recorded with the irreplaceable content on Main Sequence Stars. Do check out our Social Media handles to know about the latest workshops and Webminars on Astrophysics. 

In this episode we talked about Binary Stars and Gravitational Waves.

We discuss about Variable Stars. Tune in to the ASTROPHYSICAST Podcast Season three to witness the unknown about Stars...

We celebrate World Space Week with Ancy Anna John, A Ph.D Scholar from University of St. Andrews Scotland.

We talked about the Atmosphere of the most familiar star our own Sun.. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

We discuss about characteristics of stars ranging from their temperature, luminosity, colour all over to their size and mass. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

This is the second episode of season for stars in which we did a brief analysis of Compact Stars with two researchers from our team Sharry Kapoor and Deepan Jayakumar. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

Here we will try to mention some branches of Astronomy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

This is been a celebration episode in memory of Apollo-11. Content and facts about the first Moon Landing and its significance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

Some details about the History of Planetary Motions. Like how early Philosophers and Scientists think of Planet's Movement and things Some sort of Basic Astronomy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

The beginning to Map the Universe. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

An astrophysical jet is an astronomical phenomenon where outflows of ionised matter are emitted as an extended beam along the axis of rotation. When this greatly accelerated matter in the beam approaches the speed of light, astrophysical jets become relativistic jets as they show effects from special relativity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rohit-agrawal92/support

The Hypothetical Megastructure Dyson Sphere explained in First Episode of Series [astroTech]