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The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavalur in the Javadi Hills, near Vaniyambadi in Tirupathur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is 200 km south-west of Chennai and 175 km south-east of Bangalore.
In addition to teaching and doing research at Union, he maintained the physics-oriented blog Uncertain Principles as part of the ScienceBlogs project. [10] He now blogs at his own site .) He published his first book, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (also called How to Teach Physics to Your Dog ) in 2009.
Scott Park Manley [2] (born 31 December 1972) is a Scottish science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer.On his YouTube channel, he makes videos discussing space-related topics and news, mainly concerning up-to-date rocket science developments. [3]
Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. [1] [2] As one of the founders of the discipline, James Keeler, said, astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the heavenly bodies, rather than their positions or motions in space—what they are, rather than where they are", [3] which is studied ...
Physical cosmology is the branch of physics and astrophysics that deals with the study of the physical origins and evolution of the universe. It also includes the study of the nature of the universe on a large scale. In its earliest form, it was what is now known as "celestial mechanics," the study of the heavens.
Teach Yourself About the Greeks by J. C. Stobart, was abridged from his full length work The Glory that was Greece (1911). Teach Yourself Amateur Acting by John Bourne, said to have been read by Michael Caine at the start of his career. [8] Teach Yourself Arabic, first published in 1943, was written by Arthur Stanley Tritton.
About.com gave the book 3 1 ⁄ 2 out of 5, stating "Recommended for kids, but not for adults. The story in this book is a bit contrived, but as a book intended to teach children the basics of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and other principles that govern our universe, it does a fair job."
In addition to his scientific research, Padmanabhan worked actively to popularize science and gave over 300 popular science lectures and authored more than 100 popular science articles. He did a comic strip serial The Story of Physics [9] aimed at school children. Published by Vigyan Prasar (New Delhi), it was translated into half a dozen ...