Priyanshi Purohit Brown Dwarfs Brown dwarfs are celestial bodies which are intermediate between a planet and a star. They have a mass less than 0.075 solar masses (the mass of our Sun), or approximately 75 Mjup (Jupiter masses). Th... 23 Feb 2025 Everything Celestial
Priyanshi Purohit How do we know dark matter exists? Dark matter makes up roughly 27% of the universe and the dark energy content is almost 68%! Dark mater has always shown its effects in the interstellar medium. Its gravity drives normal matter (gas an... 24 Nov 2024 Cosmology
Priyanshi Purohit Blackholes Blackhole, a region in space so strong even light cannot escape. The idea of an object in space, massive and dense has been around for centuries. Black holes were predicted by Einstein’s theory of gen... Astronomy Blackholes Space Exploration Space Science 30 Oct 2024 Cosmology
Priyanshi Purohit Dark Matter and Dark Energy More is unknown than is known The term ‘matter’ is described as a physical substance which occupies space and possess a rest mass. Matter is categorised into various states to ease distinguishability ... Astronomy Cosmology Dark Energy Dark Matter 30 Oct 2024 Cosmology
Priyanshi Purohit Quantum Entanglement and its applications in Space Technology What is Quantum Entanglement? Quantum entanglement is the bizarre link through which the entire universe stays connected. It is a strange phenomenon which states that if a pair of two particles are en... Astronomy Quantum Entanglement Quantum Mechanics Space Science Space Technology 30 Oct 2024 Quantum Mechanics
Priyanshi Purohit Aditya L1 Mission Aditya-L1 mission, scheduled to launch on September 2, 2023 at 11:50 am (IST), will be the first space based Indian mission to study the Sun. It will be launched by ISRO’s PSLV XL rocket from Staish D... Astronomy ISRO Space Mission Space Science Space Technology 30 Oct 2024 Space Missions
Priyanshi Purohit Behind the James Webb Telescope The James Webb Telescope (JWST), 1.5 million kilometres from Earth(approximately 39 times Earth-Moon distance), orbits the sun at the second lagrange point, or L2. Despite the vast distance, it only t... Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope Observatory Space Technology Space Telescope 30 Oct 2024 Space Telescope