Tag: astrophysics

  • Why are women from Venus.

    Why are women from Venus.

    Amazing #Astronomy fact; Years are faster than day, for Venus, why are women from Venus. There is only one planet in our solar system which rotates opposite to how all other planets rotate. You guess it right, Venus. Explains why women are from Venus. You don’t get that? Its a very strange planet. The planet…

  • LIGO in India? You must be kidding …

    I was pleasantly surprised that this experiment is slated to come up in India, yes, with a whopping 250 million dollars investment into science in India is perhaps the only 2nd instance of massive science euphoria. And they are both directly or immediately so, in my field of research, although the first one INO isn’t…

  • The angular parameters of celestial mechanics !

    Define an Hour Circle. Its a bit tricky to define some astronomical parameters and not run into innocent looking misrepresentations of facts. One needs to cool his amber more times than there are parameters, then one gets a feel where and how to begin and give a good description. Hour Circle is a GREAT Circle,…

  • Star Motion, an interesting star concept.

    To budding astronomers. A difference between true velocity and proper velocity. Proper velocity (proper motion) is the motion of a star apparent to the center-of-mass of the solar system. That is, how fast any object (a star) is moving wrt the sun’s position. (in terms of its center-of-mass) So if a star is close to…

  • Stars and Fate.

    Stars and Fate.

    Astrology is the blind belief that stars change our fate — pun; like the blind belief wives change our personality. This is where Physics becomes a paraphernalia of whim, cultivated over the ages, to bring solace in seeking ignorance as a means of existential glory. I just checked some scientific terms, in regards to how…