About

I am currently doing an MPhil in Education from the University of Cambridge. My thesis topic is “secondary school students’ conceptions of the nature of science”.

In the past I worked with an NGO called SPACE (Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators) that works at promoting scientific temper in the community through astronomy. I wrote a lot of articles on basic astronomy concepts and common misconception prevalent in astronomy targeted at school students. My work required me to travel across the country.

I have studied Physics as an undergraduate student and Space Sciences with Astrophysics for my post graduation, both from University of Pune. I have a special interest in Radio Astronomy and have studied Jupiter’s radio emissions by building a half-wave dipole and followed it up with a project at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) to search for long period Pulsars along the galactic plane. For this I took observations form the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune, India.

The Astronomy Journal will be a platform for me to archive most of my popular science articles. Please feel free to comment and suggest points, topics and ideas.

Quite a few of the articles on this website will be classified under the category of “Myth Breaking”. This is because our bi-monthly newsletter features a regular myth breaking article which I write. I generally pick up a misconception or a myth that is prevalent among the students I interact with in schools and during overnight or evening observations and try to clear the concept.  Apart from that there will be a few articles on some current events and general topics.

I wish to make this a comprehensive blog soon, so be sure to check this space again in the coming days.

Photo Credit: The header image is a panoramic view from Mauna Kea, Hawaii. On the right you can see the Subaru and Keck Observatories. The image has been taken from APOD (5th July, 2005) and the credits go to Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) and Hawaiian Starlight, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).