Ever seen a sunset and a solar eclipse at the same time? Well, now you have.4yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/spaceporn
Currently, our Sun is going through the Solar Minimum, a point/phase in its 11-year long solar cycle when the surface activities slow down to a minimum and as a result no sunspots or solar flares pop up on its surface. This gives it the appearance of a giant smooth orange billiard ball.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/spaceporn
Currently, our Sun is going through a Solar Minimum, a point/phase in its 11-year long solar cycle when the surface activities slow down to a minimum and as a result no (visible) sunspots or solar flares appear on its surface. This gives it an appearance of a giant, smooth orange billiard ball.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/space
Out of the 6 currently active satellites orbiting around Mars, India's Mangalyaan is the only one stationed in an orbit from where it can capture the full disk of the planet in a single shot.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/spaceporn
Possibly the last photo taken of Albert Einstein in Berlin, Germany (December 1932) before he was exiled from his homeland.3yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/berlin
Lonar Crater Lake (Maharashtra) - The only known crater in the world to have been created by a meteor entering at hypersonic velocity. Dated to be around 45,000 to 60,000 yrs ago, it is the 2nd largest crater in the Indian Subcontinent & a National Geo-Heritage Monument. (Source in comments)5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/india
Albert Einstein, or as Berlin knows him- The Genius of Schoneberg. (Haberlandstraße, 1920)5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/berlin
If only someone had both a rocket launch company and a hole digging company 🤷3yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/SpaceXMasterrace
Image of Mars' landscape without NASA’s orange filter used in their cameras.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/spaceporn
The first Indian Cricket Team before their departure to London to play their first official match against Sussex County Cricket Club, England (1911).5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/india
[NotMine] This is the sole page left from the notes of renowned scientist S.N. Bose (he lends his name to Bosons & Bose-Einstein condensate), where he was apparently seem to be working on the eclipse pattern over the course of decades. What do you reckon he was exactly trying to compute here?4yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/scienceofdeduction
Behold the insane formula that explains everything in the universe (except for the force of gravity), even the Higgs-Boson: The Standard Model Lagrangian.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/Physics
Newly released poster of the upcoming Bollywood flick Mission Mangal shows the Russian launcher Soyuz 2.1a Rocket as the MOM carrier, as opposed to PSLV C-25.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/ISRO
High-resolution image of the primary landing site of Chandrayaan-2. For scale, the crater labelled Simpelius N below the site is about 9 km across!5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/ISRO
Throwback to the time Albert Einstein miscalculated the ticket fee in a Berlin tram and it became news.3yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/berlin
An aerial image of Ramasetu (Adam's Bridge) taken by ESA's satellite Sentinel-2B on 18 June 2019.5yr ⋅ Astro_Neel ⋅ r/india
