Join us on the roof of the academic building of IUB for Astronomy Night II on 13 April 2023, 7:30 pm. Tanweer Hasan, PhD, the honorable Vice Chancellor of IUB, announced the beginning of astronomy nights on 9 March 2023 and ARGI will organize these nights of stargazing and open discussion regularly. Most of the […]
Title: Pulsars: The Incredible Physics of Incredible Stars Speaker: Afiq Abdul Hamid, PhD student, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Abstract: Pulsars/ Neutron Stars are exotic stellar remnants that exist as laboratories of extreme physics. Since their discovery 60 years ago, the study of pulsars has expanded to become a fertile field of radio astronomical […]
Regular Astronomy Nights (stargazing events) are beginning at IUB starting from this Thursday. You will get the chance to take images of the sky using a Unistellar eQuinox telescope and see the images on a large monitor at the Digital Classroom of IUB (BC2022). If more than half of the sky is covered in clouds, […]
We are starting Digital Stargazing Nights (DiStaNt) with the Unistellar eQuinox telescopes we received from University of Toronto. Our aim with these new digital or smart telescopes is to change the perception of people about our citizenship of the cosmos. In order to be a cosmic citizen, it is no longer enough to use manual […]
SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science 2024 will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event is sponsored by International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) and the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) and hosted by Nepal Physical Society (NPS). The school is meant for mainly graduate students and anyone with at least a BSc in physics […]
Khan Asad is invited as the Chief Guest for the 67th Anniversary of the Sputnik Flight to Outer Space, taking place on Thursday, 24th October 2024, at Legend International School. This significant event will celebrate humanity's groundbreaking achievement of venturing into space, marking the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, which continues to inspire […]
Many Bangladeshi astronomers are currently engaged in research and teaching positions in various countries, including many PhD, postdoc, and faculty members. On Saturday, October 26, at 8:30 PM, I will be participating in an online panel discussion with five people from North American to talk about opportunities for pursuing a PhD in astronomy abroad, specifically […]
