Deployment of James Webb Telescope

The James Webb telescope was launched by NASA on Christmas eve. The telescope can unfold only when it is in the orbit. The telescope succeeds Hubble telescope. About James Webb Telescope It was jointly developed by NASA, Canadian Space Agency ..

Tags: Ariane 5 • Big Bang • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis • Canadian Space Agency (CSA) • European Space Agency (ESA)

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022

Category: International / World Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs

GMRT discovers the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is an array of radio telescopes, located in Pune. It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, under the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Recently, this is one of the four ..

Tags: Big Bang • Radio telescope • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang

Scientists have detected the biggest explosion in the universe after the Big Bang. The explosion occurred from a supermassive black hole. Where did the explosion take place? The explosion took place in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster which is 390 million ..

Tags: Big Bang • Black hole • Radio telescope

NASA decides to launch SPHEREx Mission to investigate origins of our Universe

US space agency NASA has recently unveiled a new space telescope ‘SPHEREx’ that would begin a two-year mission in 2023 to map the entire sky in order to understand the origins of the universe. The acronym SPHEREx stands for ‘Spectro-Photometer ..

Tags: Astronomy • Barred spiral galaxies • Big Bang • Galaxy • In spaceflight