ASTROPHYSICAST

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 Cha...

13 Feb 20221h 16min

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 f...

9 Feb 20228min

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 h...

30 Jan 202210min

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 sp...

24 Jan 20229min

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, h...

14 Jan 20227min

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, ca...

2 Jan 20227min

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

26 Dec 202131min

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 aw...

23 Dec 20219min