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 related research had kindly consolidated it and published.

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/
Learn more about the telescope and its instruments: https://aries.res.in/dot/

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 accepted and registration (free) is open.

Important Dates:

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 SOC, ASI SCAI-26)

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. 
Last date to apply: 1 December 2025.
For more details visit the following page.

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 and Postdocs at your institutes and encourage them to apply.

Thanks and Regards
Anjan Sen 
(On behalf of IAGRG Council)

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 students from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry and Goa are encouraged to apply.

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 India through lectures and hands-on sessions.

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