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                                             SPACE SCIENCE





                                              comes hypothesis and when hypothesis are   speaks frequency.
                                              prac  cal tested and proven, they become   Every year, the Moon is moving away
                Pralhad Bhetuwal              theory. But some  me theore  cal result and   from the Earth by 3.8 Cen  meters.
                                              prac  cal result does not match, specially   The sounds like obnoxious deafening
                                              with celes  al bodies. This is because it is very   church bells. Sound doesn’t travel in the
                                              diffi  cult to perform experiments in space.   vacuum of space, but if it did, Earth would
           Astronomy is one of the oldest     There are many unanswered ques  ons in   be constantly bombarded with a noise
        natural sciences. Astronomy (from Greek:   astronomy which can only be imagined so   that’s 5 decibels louder than a train horn
        ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that   far. However, standing on scien  fi c base,   blaring right in front of you.
        studies celes  al objects and phenomena.   we have to either prove it mathema  cally
        Or it can be defi ne as the scien  fi c study   or prac  cally. We can fi nd solu  on to those   Starquakes are real, and
        of the stars, planets, and other heavenly   ques  ons by mathema  cal means and also   they’re seriously violent.
        bodies (e.g. brown dra  , wormhole, dark   by imagina  on.                    Light bulb was actually invented by
        ma  er etc.)as well as dark energy. Further                                Nikola Tesla, not by Thomas Alva Edi  on.
        it can be divided into two branches as   For instance:                     But before that many scien  sts had
        follow:                                   Do parallel universe exist?      invented it.
           Astrophysics                           Are there aliens?                   The Universe is composed almost
           Cosmology                              What was before Big Bang?        completely of dark energy (about
                                                  Is there God? etc.               69.2%±1.2%), dark ma  er (about 25.8%),
           Did you know?                          This is just short introduc  on of   and ordinary ma  er (about 4.9%).
           We have been taught that “Due to   Astronomy because there are many
        high pressure, temperature of the core   theories and facts in astronomy. The    Remember:
        of the sun is high. But NASA just lunch (in   most important thing is that one who is   The Hindu holy books Vedas
        August 12, 2018) ‘Parker Solar Probe’ to   interested in astronomy should imagine. I   (j]b) include most of the today’s
        know why temperature of sun core is high.    have something for you.       Modern Scien  fi c discovery.
           The basic and most essen  al thing
        require for Cosmologist (theore  cal     ScienƟ fi c facts:                                 (writer is Rover scout
        physicist) is Imagina  on. With imagina  on   Universe doesn’t speak English; it         of Dynamic Scout crew)





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