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Dibyendu Nandi
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physicist & night blind astronomer; creator cessi.in; space weather; sehnsucht; what is essential is invisible to the eye ☀️🌏🌒🌠B^2
Made in India; Planet Earth
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Jul 7, 2023
    India readies for #Chandrayaan3 launch next week. The primary goal is to test our technical capability of landing a rover on the Moon 🌒 The mission costs about $ 82 million and is @isro s second attempt at a successful moon landing. What most people don't know is that... +
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    Jul 14, 2023
    Remember those who dared to live their dreams...India's 🇮🇳 journey to space #Chandrayaan3 1963 2023
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    May 20, 2025
    Jayant Vishnu Narlikar [1938 - 2025] Astrophysicist, science communicator, institutional builder and mentor to generations of scientists. Indian science and society benefited greatly from his leadership and wisdom. Another Jedi is gone. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Na…
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Oct 6, 2020
    In context of #Physics @NobelPrize let us not forget the Indian physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri. His equation demonstrates singularities are an inevitable consequence of general relativity - a key ingredient in the proofs of Penrose Hawking singularity theorems. @NobelPrize
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    The Nobel Prize
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    Oct 6, 2020
    BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    May 30, 2023
    The remarkable Foucault's pendulum installed in the new Parliament building of India; most media outlets failed to cover this. It follows the laws of Physics.
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    National Council of Science Museums-NCSM
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    May 29, 2023
    Foucault's Pendulum installed by @ncsmgoi at the new Parliament building on May 28, 2023. #AmritMahotsav #MyParliamentMyPride @PMOIndia @MinOfCultureGoI @AmritMahotsav @kishanreddybjp @M_Lekhi @arjunrammeghwal @secycultureGOI @PIB_India @PIBCulture
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    May 2, 2022
    Anatomy of a near disaster. What happened to @flyspicejet Flight 945 which resulted in severe passenger injuries and damage to the aircraft? I am a #SpaceWeather guy but here's a thread of my analysis on weather closer to home for @DGCAIndia + @JM_Scindia
    The SpiceJet aircraft faces air turbulence during its descent, in Durgapur on Sunday. (ANI Photo) 
    DGCA to probe turbulence on SpiceJet flight: Scindia
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Oct 25, 2022
    As Chair of Astronomical Soc. of India's @asipoec I felt it necessary to get the Captain of @IndiGo6E 2516 to announce there would be a Partial #SolarEclipse 🌙 enroute Kolkata to Delhi. I was doing science outreach at 36000 ft 🤓 and oh boy, what a sight we had @cessi_iiserkol +
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Jun 28, 2025
    The best thing in academic chatter this week
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Aug 20, 2021
    Replying to @ANI
    Did anyone find any "MSI" program in NASA websites? I did not. There is a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) scholarship run for some American Universities but that is not a NASA program per se. This sort of news should come with evidence which is lacking.
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Sep 2, 2023
    After the launch when things had quietened down scientists associated with the #AdityaL1 mission gathered together for a picture; to look back and cherish this day...
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Aug 20, 2021
    Replying to @ydnad0 and @ANI
    What hides behind such news, in general, is the unrealistic and unhealthy expectations and standards we set for our children. Children who can code, children who apparently are "invited by NASA" - and society assumes this is the bar. Let's give a life to our children.
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Aug 21, 2024
    Breaking ❗Chandrayaan-3 @isro maps the lunar surface composition at the high latitude southern hemisphere for the first time. Result out in @Nature today. Congratulations team #Chandrayaan3 nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Jan 18, 2023
    Today I did something I have never done. I declined a grant. The reduced approval was inadequate to support the human resource and computational power necessary to sustain proposed research. Computational modelers in India suffer because agencies devalue local computing needs +
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    Dibyendu Nandi
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    Nov 23, 2024
    After getting hit for a six and then pegging him down, Mitchell Starc said something to Yashasvi Jaiswal. The response that came back was better than a six 🏏 A cricketing classic that no fast bowler wants to hear...
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