Nature and Environment Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/nature-and-environment/ Simplifier in Science, Technology, and Life Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://alokgovil.com/wp-content/uploads/root/cropped-alok-govil-32x32.jpg Nature and Environment Archives - Alok Govil https://alokgovil.com/category/nature-and-environment/ 32 32 Experiencing the Milky Way https://alokgovil.com/experiencing-the-milky-way/ https://alokgovil.com/experiencing-the-milky-way/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:29:07 +0000 https://alokgovil.com/?p=673 Given my interest in sciences, I had seen Saturn with a consumer-grade telescope (looked like a line going through a dot), Jupiter with four of its moons (the sight Galileo would have had). 🙂 Seeing the Milky Way in the night sky was not coming. I knew where in the sky it is supposed to […]

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