Welcome to the blog of TRAC BITS Pilani! We are a group of radio astronomy enthusiasts. No, not your average Joe who stares at the sky. We use the cooler radio part of the spectrum for our observation. Galaxies are our stars in this world. Among all frequency bands in the spectrum, radio has the clearest reception on ground because its absorbed and scattered the least. This presents a goldmine of information for us to study about. We also work on multiple other global projects like SWAN Project (Sky Watch Array Network), LIGO Project (Laser Interferometer and Gravitational Observatory) and the SDR Project (Software Defined Radio). This is a collection of blog posts based on all of our work. We hope to present the deeper essence behind ML and DSP to you and we promise it will most certainly be better than your PS :P
Posts
Stars have intruiging magnetic fields, and our Sun is no exception. Read along to read more about the Sun's magnetic field and how it protects us from the cosmic radiation.
Aug 22, 2021
An errant ball of solder completed the abort circuit of the Apollo 14 landing before it even attempted to do so. Could the mission be rescued with barely any time to spare?
Aug 14, 2021
The Apollo 11 mission's guidance computer repeatedly flashed the error code 1202 while Armstrong and his crew were making their landing approach. What happened next?
Aug 2, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next generation of advanced space telescopes and the successor to the insanely succesful and famous Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST will usher in another era of amazing pictures and scientific data from the heavens above.
Jul 22, 2021
Ever since Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism, humanity has been attempting to find a single grand unified theory for everything. String Theory is one of our best stabs at this unified theory.
Jul 12, 2021
Our sky is constantly changing, indicating the motion of planets and stars. The study of where they're located and how they move around is called astrometry.
Jul 2, 2021
