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Hans India
6 days ago
- General
- Hans India
Sri Sathya Sai Global Mahila conference Day 2 conducted
Puttaparthi: The second day of Sri Sathya Sai Global Mahila Conference commenced with a spiritually uplifting morning session that celebrated the divine feminine through the themes of love, wisdom, and service. The morning proceedings featured inspiring addresses from two distinguished women speakers. Renowned Bharatanatyam artist and Bal Vikas Guru, Maya Shiva Kumar, opened the session by speaking about the profound spiritual significance of bearing the divine name. She emphasised that carrying the name of Bhagawan is not merely a privilege, but a sacred responsibility. The second keynote address came from Usha Srikanth, scientist at UR Rao Satellite Centre (ISRO) and alumna of the Anantapur Campus, SSSIHL. Drawing a powerful metaphor, she compared the human mind to soil that must be tilled and nurtured. Following these speeches, 12 eminent women devotees from various parts of the world were honored for their exceptional contributions to the Sri Sathya Sai Mission. Their lives, rooted in service and spirituality, stood as shining examples of the transformative impact of Sai values in action.
Deccan Herald
26-04-2025
- Science
- Deccan Herald
ISRO organises national science meet on Chandrayaan-4 Lunar Sample Return Mission
'There were deliberations from the teams from the U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), ISRO on the plans for the lunar sample curation and analysis facilities, as well as on the Chandrayaan-4 mission,' ISRO said in a statement.
India Today
24-04-2025
- Science
- India Today
Nuclear explosion that lasted three hours: Indian satellite detects mega burst
The UR Rao Satellite Centre has announced a new discovery by the XSPECT instrument aboard India's XPoSat March 19, 2025, XSPECT detected a rare thermonuclear 'burst' followed shortly by a much longer and more powerful event called a 'superburst' from a neutron star system named 4U 160852, located about 4,000 light-years from stars are incredibly dense remnants of massive stars that exploded as They are only about 10 to 20 kilometers wide but weigh more than our Sun. In some cases, these neutron stars exist in binary systems, where they pull gas from a nearby companion star. Schematic representation of a Neutron star low-mass X-ray binary system during persistent emission from steady accretion. (Photo: URSC) This gas builds up on the neutron star's surface and heats up to millions of degrees, emitting the gas layer ignites suddenly in a thermonuclear explosion, causing a brief X-ray burst lasting seconds to is what XSPECT observed first — a quick burst peaking in just a few seconds and fading over about 20 seconds. Then, surprisingly, about 16 minutes later, the star brightened again, but this time the burst lasted for about three longer event is called a superburst and is caused by the explosive burning of carbon deep under the surface. Superbursts are very rare compared to normal detailed observations showed the neutron star's surface temperature during the bursts reached around 20 million degrees Kelvin, with a radius close to 9.3 data also suggest special processes like Compton scattering might be involved in the superburst's high brightness and slow fade. India's XSPECT instrument aboard the XPoSat detected a rare thermonuclear burst. (Photo: Isro) This discovery is important because it helps scientists understand the extreme physics of neutron stars and the behaviour of matter under intense gravity and superburst was also seen by another space instrument, MAXI, confirming the ability to observe X-rays without saturation and over long periods makes it uniquely suited to catch such rare events. The team plans to continue studying these bursts to learn more about the extreme environments around neutron stars and the processes powering these cosmic Watch
