Charles Messier, a French astronomer famous for compiling the Messier Catalogue, was born in the year 1730, on the 26th of June in a wealthy French family along with 11 siblings. The Great Comet of 1744, which is catalogued as C/1743 X1, was the impetus for Messier to pursue a…
Festivals form a very essential part of Indian culture. Although each festival is celebrated in its unique way, there is a very uncanny astronomical basis for each of these festivals. Keeping a track of time and date has been the greatest challenge for humankind, however, with the invention of the…