Brightest end to biggest star

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory of the latest, and largest, stellar explosion ever recorded indicate that a similar explosion may go off in our galaxy, Milky Way. Astronomers say......

Most powerful eruption in the universe

Astronomers have found the most powerful eruption in the universe using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A super massive black hole generated this eruption by growing at a remarkable rate, a NASA......

These Scientists Shaped India

I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......

The genius who discovered how stars live and die

The LIGO announcement -- which confirmed, among other things, that gold, platinum and other heavy metals were products of neutron star collisions -- came just before Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's......