National Events/Notifications

Please find attached the Sky News for February 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

An IAU Junior Member WG Event: Researchers in the Spotlight with Prof. Debarati Chatterjee, Prof. Chandreyee Maitra and Prof. Rajeshwari Dutta (Special Edition: IUCAA x IAU Women in Science Event 2026) on 4th February 2026.

Please find more information from the…

This is the first announcement of the "INDUS Symposium on Heliospheric Advancements (ISHA)", an online-only conference from 08-10 April 2026, dedicated to early-career researchers in space physics. ISHA is designed as a focused and accessible forum for PhD, Postdoctoral, and early-career researchers to present their work and engage in in-depth scientific discussion.

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First AO cycle observations of Aditya-L1 for National Guest Observer was opened on 6 Jan 2026. The deadline to submit the proposal is 6 Feb 2026.
Please find more details at https://www.isro.gov.in/AdityaL1_first_AO_cycle.html

Title: Workshop on Galaxy Mergers and their nuclei" will be conducted at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru from March 9 to 11, 2026

Description: The workshop will be for two and a half days, and will consist of introductory talks on galaxy mergers and their nuclear activity. The afternoons will have hands on sessions for using multi-…

The 3rd International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT-2026) Workshop will be hosted by ARIES Nainital from 9 - 13 March 2026. This workshop is open to students in the final year of their M.Sc. (Physics/Astrophysics), the fifth year of their BS-MS (Physics), and Ph.D. (Physics/Astrophysics) students up to their third year.

About ILMT - The International…

Please find attached the IAU circular for Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM2026).

The ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India - 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) will be held during 22-24 January at IUCAA, Pune. The Sympsosium is supported by the generous financial support as well as in-kind contributions of the ASI, IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, and NCRA-TIFR.

With 150 attendees and more than 170 other registered participants attending online,…

A micro-credential course (Hybrid mode) on "The Physics of Fluid Mechanics" will be conducted at Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education from January 20, 2026.

Fluid mechanics is one of the oldest branches of theoretical physics, founded by Leonhard Euler in 1755. Yet it contains one of the deepest unsolved problems in physics: that of…

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to a “hands-on online workshop on TOPCAT” led by Mark Taylor (University of Bristol, UK) on January 15, 2026, 6.00 PM IST.

This workshop is organised by a global network of ~95 Indian astronomers based around the world, formed to foster interaction and skill-sharing within our community (Webpage:…

Please find attached the SkyNews for January 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Please find attached the SkyNews for December 2025.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

As detailed in the first announcement, the Center of Excellence in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, and IUCAA, Pune, are organising a 3-day-long Southern Regional Astronomy Meeting (RAM-XI)- Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges from 5-7 February 2026. This meeting offers a valuable…

This is a gentle reminder for those who have not yet registered for the One-day Online Meeting on the Bhaskaracharya Observatory for the Search of Exoplanets (BOSE) – “Towards the Discovery of Earth-Twins”, scheduled on 9 December 2025.

We are pleased to inform you that the registration deadline has been extended to 30 November 2025.

Registration & Meeting…

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to share that a collection of instrument articles of Payloads on board Aditya-L1 is completed.

This collection of articles cover in detail the science objectives, configuration, early science results of each of the payloads on board Aditya-L1. Solar Physics, an international journal for solar and  heliophysics…

The state-of-the-art 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope is now inviting observation proposals for the 2026-C1 cycle for the Observation period: 01 February – 31 May 2026.

[Deadline for submitting the proposal: 1 December 2025, 1700 hrs IST]

Submit your proposals: https://dopses.aries.res.in/…

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Asia-Pacific SKA Science Meeting 2026 will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 9–13 February 2026 to discuss collaborative research on the SKA in the Asia-Pacific region.

Asian-Pacific SKA science meeting 2026 (9-13 February 2026)

We kindly invite you to participate.  Abstracts are now being…

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India - 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) has now been extended to the midnight of 10 November 2025. Please see https://events.iiap.res.in/event/352/ for more details.

Thanks,
Niruj Mohan Ramanujam
(for…

The annual Kodaikanal Winter School on Solar Physics conducted by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, will be organised this year in January 2026 at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory.  

The details of the School: 
Dates: 12-17 January 2026. 
Location: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Tamil Nadu. 
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Dear Colleagues,

The Fourth IAGRG School will take place at IUCAA, Pune during 12-23rd January 2026. The announcement poster is attached with this email. The school website is https://sites.google.com/view/4thiagrgschool/

Kindly circulate it among interested Phd Students…

The Center of Excellence in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, and IUCAA, Pune, are organising a 3-day-long Southern Regional Astronomy Meeting (RAM-XI)- Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges from 5-7 February 2026. Faculty, Postdocs, PhD scholars and motivated PG…

Through oversight, the table showing the satellites of Jupiter that appeared in the November 2025 issue of SkyNews had some errors. The corrected table is attached.

The inconvenience is regretted.

Editors

Please find attached the SkyNews for November 2025. 

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

NIT Rourkela is organizing an IUCAA sponsored workshop on “New Frontiers in Astronomy and Astrophysics” during 8-12 December, 2025.

Objective: 
The proposed workshop targets graduate/undergraduate students, PhD students and college/university teachers to familiarize them with the cutting-edge research, particularly in the area of Astronomy and Astrophysics in…

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce a One-day Online Meeting on the Bhaskaracharya Observatory for the Search of Exoplanets (BOSE) - “Towards the Discovery of Earth-Twins”  to be held on 9th December 2025  at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad.

The meeting aims to bring together observers, instrumentation experts, theorists, and scientific…

The ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) will be held during 22-24 January at IUCAA, Pune, and is being supported by the ASI, IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, and NCRA-TIFR.

We are happy to announce the call for registrations as well as for submission of abstracts for the Symposium, through the website at…

We are excited to announce the SKA-India Science Meeting 2026, titled "India and the SKA: Preparing for a Transformative Era in Astrophysics". The meeting will be held from 15-18 January 2026 at IISER Mohali.

As the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) enters its full construction phase, this meeting will provide a key platform for the Indian astronomy community to…

We are pleased to inform that we are holding a two day workshop called Women in Astrophysics: Voices, Equity, and Science (WAVES) - A Workshop on Gender Equity and Advances in Astrophysics,  at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, on November 3–4, 2025. This two-day meeting will bring together women astronomers and astrophysicists in India to showcase current research across diverse…

GW-EM-Nu-2025: Multi-Messenger Science With Indian Facilities-Now and in the Next Decade

This year marks the 10-years of discovery of Gravitational Waves, which has opened a new window for multi-messenger science. The era of multi-messenger science using signals from astrophysical sources observed in different cosmic messengers such as Cosmic Rays (CRs), Electromagnetic…

Please find attached the SkyNews for October 2025.

Arvind Paranjpye  
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai