Skywatchers

The feather in the crown of IIA, the Vainu Bappu 2.34m telescope


"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries" - Carl Sagan

Jewels of the Sky

A clear night sky at Kavalur

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people" - Carl Sagan