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Cosmic Diversity

Today, I am going to do a slightly different type of blog. This time, it's part 1 of 2 on a series of poems! These poems are free verse, and I thought might be interesting to you.

How Are Stars Classified?

Stars are classified based on their visual traits, like colour, and physical traits, like size and mass. Star classification is a way to categorize stars, either based on their color and/or size and mass. Since stars have so much variety in between them, classifying stars allows astronomers to find a star with certain characteristics much easier. Astronomers also classify stars in order to better understand the different types of stars in both our galaxy and our universe.

The Living Roof on the California Academy Of Sciences

On 6th Jan 2023, I had the opportunity to visit the California Academy of Sciences in San Fransisco. Intrestingly, as we soon discovered, there was a whole proper micro-ecosystem on the roof.

California Academy Of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum that is one of the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing more than 46 million specimens.

Living Roof

Ten Interesting Things about JWST

On 7th Nov 2022, I had the opportunity to attend a Dean's Lecture on James Webb Telescope at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA.

This was a lecture presented by a scientist who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope. He explained the different parts of the telescope, the launching and readying procedures. In this blog, I would like to highlight the 10 interesting things about the James Webb Telescope I learnt from this lecture.