Source: IE Subject: Science and Technology Context: ISRO has confirmed that an interplanetary dust particle (IDP) enters Earth’s atmosphere roughly every 16 minutes, based on measurements from India’s first cosmic dust detector Dust EXperiment (DEX). About Dust EXperiment (DEX): What it is? DEX is India’s first indigenously developed cosmic dust detector, designed to detect and …
Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: HT Context: Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and the UR Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO have achieved a groundbreaking discovery by detecting polarized emissions from an extragalactic black hole (i.e., outside our Milky Way Galaxy) marking the first such observation beyond our Milky Way Galaxy. …
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Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: IE Context: XPoSat is India’s first polarimetry mission, developed in collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Raman Research Institute (RRI) (an autonomous research institute), to be launched later this year. About XPoSat mission:
