Dear Colleagues,
Cosmic Connections 2026 is a national meeting bringing together researchers in cosmology, with a special focus on the growing role of AI/ML across cosmic scales. The scientific scope will cover topics from the Early, Intermediate, and Late Universe, including inflation, CMB, primordial GWs, cosmic dawn, reionization, JWST results, dark energy, large-scale structure,…
NLST Meeting: Discussion on High-Resolution Solar Science Capabilities of a 2-m Class Telescope
Venue: Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India
Dates: 9–11 September 2026
Website: https://events.iiap.res.in/event/444/
The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) will be India's flagship…
BAWG Data Science Hackathon 2026 will be held from 29 - 30 October 2026 at IUCAA, Pune.
Last Date of Registration: 31 July 2026
For more information please click at the link below:
The state-of-the-art 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope is now inviting observation proposals for the 2026-C2 cycle!
🗓 Observation period: 01 October 2026 – 31 January 2027
🔗 Submit your proposals: https://dopses.aries.res.in/
ℹ️ Learn more about the telescope and its instruments:…
2nd Aditya-L1 Proposal Writing Workshop will be conducted online on 13th July, 2026.
Last Date of application: 10 July, 2026
Please register at this link.
ISRO has announced the second Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the XPoSat mission, inviting the Indian astronomy community to submit proposals for XPoSat observation time.
Deadline of proposal submission is 25 July 2026. For more details, please visit https://www.isro.gov.in/XPoSat_Mission.html
Thanks…
The 12th Meeting of the BRICS Astronomy Working Group will take place from 26 to 30 October 2026 at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune, India, in an in-person format. The possibility of participation in an online format will also be considered for those registered participants who cannot attend the event in person.
This event is…
Please find attached the Sky News for July 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
XSat is a proposed next-generation Indian X-ray astronomy space mission in collaboration with Europe. If approved, it will be a legacy of AstroSat and will cause a transformational leap in X-ray spectral-timing capability unmatched by any existing or currently planned international mission. XSat aims to probe, with an unprecedented depth, fundamental and extreme aspects of compact…
Dear all,
This is the first announcement of the VBO dust workshop III 'Dust across cosmic scales: from Grain to Galaxies' which is being organized at VBO from 11 to 14th August 2026 (in hybrid mode). The workshop will have expert review talks on current trends of Astrophysical dust, contributory talks and tutorial sessions on data analysis and dust codes.
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Please find attached the Sky News for June 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear All,
Greetings!
The BRICS Astronomy Working Group, together with the participating member nations, is currently preparing a joint application under the BRICS STI Framework Programme (PI: Prof. David Buckley). I will be coordinating the Indian contributions to this proposal.
With this email, I would like to invite interested members of the Indian Astronomy community to…
IIST is organising its 14th IIST Astronomy & Astrophysics School (IAAS) from 13 July 2026 – 22 July 2026. The school is meant to acquaint students with the basics of astrophysics. The lectures will be at a fundamental level with introductions to more advanced topics.
Students from any one of the following backgrounds are eligible to apply for the school
M Sc…
IIG-ISRO Space Weather Summer School during June 08–19, 2026
Application deadline: 12 May 2026
Please find more information at IIG-ISRO Space Weather Summer School
The 1st ILMT Contest is a nationwide astronomical data analysis competition organized using data from the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT). This initiative aims to bring together students to work on real observational data and develop innovative solutions for detecting and analysing streaks in astronomical images, which are mostly caused by passing satellites and space debris…
The Public Outreach and Education Committee of the ASI is in the process of creating and updating various databases of public interest. We would like to release an initial version of these databases at the ASI, and hence we request the relevant people to please fill these in by 10 May 2026.
All these databases will be made public on the ASI & POEC websites.
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Please find attached the Sky News for May 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear All,
The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is India’s first optical survey telescope, which has been continuously monitoring the zenith sky since its first light in April 2022 and has successfully completed four observing cycles until 2025. It covers an area of approximately 115 deg² per year, acquiring nearly 4 TB of high-quality imaging data in the SDSS g′, r′, and…
The second edition of "Conference On Blazars and Restless AGNs (COBRA): A High-Energy View", jointly organized by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. This year, we are delighted to host the meeting at IISER, Mohali from July 1-3, 2026.
The conference is…
Aditya-L1 Proposal Writing and Submission Workshop will be conducted online on 21st April, 2026.
Last Date of application: 19 April, 2026
Please register at the following link and please find more information from the attached poster.
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13th Aditya-L1 Support Cell Workshop will be conducted from 06 - 15 July, 2026 at ARIES, Nainital.
Last Date of application: 22 May, 2026
Please find more information from the following link and the attached poster.
https://al1ssc.aries.res.in/workshop-13
ICTS Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
13 July 2026 to 24 July 2026
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru, India
URL: https://icts.res.in/program/gwa2026
Application deadline: 15 May 2026
Applications are invited…
Gravitational Wave Instrumentation Workshop Summer Edition - 2026 will be held from June 29 - July 10, 2026, at IUCAA, Pune. This workshop is designed to introduce MSc/early-PhD students to GW Instrumentation.
Please find more information from following link.
ISRO has announced the second Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the Aditya-L1 mission, inviting the Indian solar physics community to submit proposals for Aditya-L1 observation time.
Deadline of proposal submission is 30 April 2026. For more details, please visit https://www.isro.gov.in/…
Please find attached the Sky News for April 2026.
Lunar Occultation Event on 29 Mar 2026
Regulus (Alpha Leonis) Mahga मघा will be occulted by the Moon on the night of 29 March 2026. This event is visible to the naked eye. For more information, Please visit
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Please find attached the Sky News for March 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
XSPECT onboard XPoSat, ToO data for the source 1A 1118-61 is available for download. The source was observed from 23 Jan to 31 Jan and from 5 Feb to 12 Feb 2026. Please visit https://pradan1.issdc.gov.in/x01/ for data download.
Announcement for the 2nd SKA-India Summer Training School 2026 at IIT-Kanpur (SKA training school - II)
We are pleased to announce the second Square Kilometre Array(SKA)-India Summer Training School 2026, which will be held from June 29 to July 10, 2026, at IIT Kanpur. This pioneering initiative, organised under the SKA-India consortium, marks an important step in…
The ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences (ATSOAA 2026) will be organized by ARIES, Nainital, from April 20 to April 30, 2026.
Last date of application: 25 February 2026.
Please find more information from the following link.
Please find attached the Sky News for February 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
