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    First Indian
    Research Project in Astronomy
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    Any BSc/BE Can Do Research
    Sitting at home
    #ABCDresearch
    #RADatHomeIndia
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    Become an e-astronomer
    Get RGB-Qualified
    Get trained at Discovery Camps
    Discover rare and interesting Radio-Galaxies
    Post FIR and Analyse on facebook group
    Interact in 3 hours/week e-session
    Submit Proposal and Publish
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    Using GMRT India's Pride
    World's Largest such radio telescope
    100+ e-astronomers
    trained to discover exotic black hole-galaxy systems.

ABOUT RAD@home

RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory  ( #RADatHomeIndia ) is the first Indian citizen-science research platform in astronomy (launched 15th April 2013). This zero-funded, zero-infrastructure nationwide Inter-University Collaboratory has been established as a platform wherein Any BE/BSc undergraduate/graduate Can Do multiwavelength, extragalactic astronomy research ( #ABCDresearch ). The collaboratory growing as a startup under University Grant Commission (UGC, Govt. of India) has been recognised inter-/nationally by two dozen institutions and has dozen professionals and thousands of active citizen/student members. Join for free...

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Trained Citizen Scientists of #RADatHomeIndia

200+ e-astronomers and 1000+ i-astronomers

NEWS

  • Inspired By Bollywood Flick 'ABCD' And Power Of Facebook, Indian Scientist Builds Army Of e-astronomers

    "The group’s activities go under hashtag #ABCDresearch – anybody can do research – and are widely followed. Since 2013, Dr Ananda Hota, radio astronomer at the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences has trained over 100 e-astronomers."
    Read more (Vigyan Prasar)
    ..Read Abstract (ASI Meeting 2018)

  • SCAAA felicitates three scientists

    "Three eminent scientists were felicitated with Samanta Chandrasekhar Jyotibigyani Samman by the Samanta Chandra Sekhar Amateur Astronomers Association (SCAAA) at the Institute of physics here Sunday. They are science writer and speaker Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik, former director Pathani Samanta Planetarium PC Nayak and Ananda Hota a faculty of Centre for Excellence in basic science, Mumbai . The awards were given to mark the Silver Jubilee function of SCAAA...
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  • Discovery of a blue supergiant star born in the wild

    "A duo of astronomers, Dr. Youichi Ohyama (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica or ASIAA, Taiwan) and Dr. Ananda Hota (UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in the Basic Sciences or CBS, India), has discovered a Blue Supergiant star located far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Over fifty-five million years ago, it emerged in an extremely wild environment, surrounded by intensely hot plasma...
    Read more (Phys.org)
    ..Read paper (The Astrophysical Journal)

  • Exotic galaxy leaves tantalizing tale

    "This is probably the most exotic galaxy with a black hole ever seen. It has the potential to teach us new lessons about how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed and developed into what we see today,"
    said Ananda Hota
    ..Read more (NRAO)
    "Located about 1.7 billion light-years from Earth, Speca is a radio source that contains a central supermassive black hole. As we have learned, galaxies of this type produce relativistic “jets” which are responsible for being bright at the radio frequencies, but that’s not all they create. While radio galaxies are generally elliptical, Speca is a spiral – reason behind is really unclear. As the relativistic jets surge with time, they create lobes of sub-atomic material at the outer edges which fan out as the material slows down… "
    - Universe Today
    ..Read more (Universe Today)

  • Cosmic Leaf Blower and the Death of Two Galaxies

    At that rate, any star-forming gas that's still hanging around will be driven out of the galaxy in about 10 million years — mere seconds from now in cosmic terms and so quickly that it's lucky Hota and his collaborators caught it at all. The whole process of transforming two young, vigorous galaxies into a single, feeble geezer, he estimates, takes about a billion years, which is still pretty fast considering that the spirals had probably been alive and healthy for 10 billion years or so before their unfortunate encounter. -TIME
    ..Read more (TIME) ..Read more (NASA)

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