Tag: astronomy

  • Status of Mars Orbiter of India !!

    Status of Mars Orbiter of India !!

    A beautiful formula for what angle an object in space extends at you? Its the (diameter-of-object / distance -of-object) ratio is the tangent of that angle. Then, the farther the object is the smaller the angle becomes maintaining the tangent value of the angle in that ratio, because the object will have a fixed size/diameter.…

  • Science Journalism is neither science nor journalism.

    Science Journalism is neither science nor journalism.

    Science Journalism is neither science nor journalism. (sigh?) Hermaphrodites are neither men nor women. ( and while on that they could not be sexists by design right? ) Comet ISON (image below) seen recently, falling in deep space towards sun and eventually completely annihilating itself from observation. Its a comet that was a deep-space-ice-berg melting…