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Going to Space to See the Sky | Somak Raychaudhury | TEDxJadavpurUniversity

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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In this eye-opening talk, Somak Raychaudhury explains how we perceive the sky and talks about the various aspects of the sky which we fail to recognize in spite of the role it plays in our everyday lives.

Somak Raychaudhury is an astrophysicist who is the director of IUCAA, Pune. He obtained a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom where he proceeded to win the Smith's prize in 1988. He remains affiliated to the Astrophysics and Space Research group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, where he used to be the director of the Wast Hills Observatory. He was a staff member at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working for the Chandra X-ray Observatory. He has published over 80 research papers and was one of the key people to start the Indian Astronomy Olympiad. He is known for his work stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. His significant contributions include those in the fields of gravitational lensing, galaxy dynamics and large-scale motions in the Universe, including the Great Attractor.

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