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New Indian Express
25-05-2025
- Science
- New Indian Express
YATS team embarks on exposure visit to ISRO facilities
BHUBANESWAR : The top 30 winners of the 18th edition of the Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) on Saturday embarked on an educational exposure visit to ISRO's telemetry tracking and command network and UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) in Bengaluru. The talent search is a flagship initiative by Tata Steel in collaboration with Pathani Samanta Planetarium, operating under the Science and Technology department. The journey was flagged off by the principal secretary of Science and Technology department, Chithra Arumugam at a ceremony held in the planetarium. The winning students were selected from a competition conducted among aspirants from 30 districts. Congratulating the winners who were chosen out of 71,000 participants, Arumugam said, this initiative not only celebrates the legacy of Pathani Samanta but also ignites the scientific curiosity of young minds. 'It has been truly inspiring for students who dream of becoming the next Sunita Williams,' she said. Chief of corporate communications of Tata Steel Sarvesh Kumar said, the platform will inspire and empower future scientists.
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
