Tag: Astronomy

• Nobel Prize 2017: Physics

  

  Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the 108th Nobel Prize in Physics “For their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Rainer Weiss, a professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology was awarded the one half of the honor along with Barry Barish and Kip Thorne…

  October 4, 2017

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• NASA’s 10 Most Popular Space Explorations! [Part 1]

  

  10. Pioneer  Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in the year 1972 and 1973 respectively, were the first spacecraft to visit the solar system’s most photogenic gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California. Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to traverse the Asteroid Belt…

  October 1, 2017

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