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.
…
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
IUCAA is organizing an advanced workshop on “THeoretical aspects Of Relativistic jets” (THOR), from January 5-9, 2026. The workshop’s primary goal is to provide Indian researchers with much-needed exposure to the AGN jet theory. Another crucial aspect of the event is to develop the skills of participants in numerical simulations of the relativistic jet emission through hands-…
Dear Colleagues,
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are pleased to announce a joint workshop dedicated to heliophysics. This event will focus on scientific opportunities arising from the combined observations of Aditya-L1, Solar Orbiter, and Proba-3 missions.
The workshop will be organized as in-person during…
The call for applications for the second gravitational-wave instrumentation workshop (GWIW-2025) at IUCAA is now open. The workshop will be held from November 30 - December 13, 2025 at IUCAA, Pune.
Important dates:
Registration deadline: September 30, 2025
Referee's recommendations Deadline: October 02, 2025
More details can be found from…
U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), one of the premier centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is organizing an international conference on “A Decade of AstroSat Observations: Science Outcomes and Future Prospects” from January 30 – February 1, 2026, in Bengaluru, India.
AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength space observatory, has enabled scientists…
Dear ASI Members,
We hope you are all looking forward with excitement to see the total lunar eclipse on Sunday night, the 7th of September. The last time all of India was able to witness a total lunar eclipse was in 2018, and the next time will be in 2028. Hopefully, despite the cloudy skies across much of the country during this time of the year, many of us will get a glimpse of this…
We are delighted to announce the publication of the ICSP Silver Jubilee Volume – “Looking Back”, released in celebration of the Silver Jubilee Year of the Indian Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata. This special volume highlights ICSP’s journey, milestones, and achievements, reflecting the Centre’s scientific contributions, growth, and outreach activities.
The volume can…
The Department of Physics, Assam University, Silchar, is organizing a three-day symposium on “The Scientific Legacy of Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar” under the banner of the ICARD Centre. The event is scheduled to be held from 15th to 17th September 2025 at the Department of Physics.
The poster is attached for your reference.
With best regards.…
We are pleased to announce that Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Astronomical Society of India (ASI), is organizing a Symposium titled "ASI Symposium 005: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Multi-wavelength Optics and Instrumentation in Observational Sciences".
The symposium is being organised to highlight the role of optics and instrumentation across…
Workshop on "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy: Advancement in Trends and Techniques " will be organized by the Department of Mathematics and Computing, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad from 13-17 October 2025. The interested researchers are requested to participate in the workshop. The registration of the workshop may be done using the link …
ICSP, Kolkata is organizing the 3rd Young Astrophysicists of Today’s India (YATI-3) during 07–09 October 2025 at the JNC Auditorium, ICSP. The registration and abstract submission deadlines are approaching soon, so we encourage all interested participants to register at the earliest. Please find more information at the link…
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru is organizing a program on Exploring Exoplanets: The Journey to Discover New Frontiers and Habitable Worlds from March 16-27, 2026.
Please find more information from the following link.
Website: https://www.icts.res.in/program/…
Department of Mathematics, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab is organizing a workshop on Numerical and Machine Learning Techniques for Solving Real-World Differential Equations using MATLAB/Python.
This workshop is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of advanced numerical techniques for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial…
Please find attached the SkyNews for September 2025.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS), is excited to announce that all public data releases, including the calibrated visibility data from Data Release 2 (DR2) – which enabled the detection of nearly a million radio sources – are now mirrored on the…
The abstract submission deadline has been extended upto 31st August 2025. Please find more information from the link.
