32. [Urdu] The Strange Cartwheel Galaxy

11/26/21 • 11 min

This is a strange galaxy. Instead of a spiral or an elliptical galaxy, it has a ring. The story of how this ring formed leads us to a hit-and-run suspect - a galaxy that went though the center of a spiral galaxy creating ripples of shock waves. Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed in exploring the origins of Cartwheel galaxy in this Urdu (and Hindi).
For a video of this episode, see here:
https://youtu.be/pHnkDOECtps

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31 [Urdu] Dead Martian Life on Its Moon?

Was there ever any life on Mars? This is a big question. Currently there are rovers like NASA's Perseverance and China's Zhuorong Mars rover looking for clues of life on the Red planet. But it is possible that Martian moon Phobos may be an ideal place to look ancient life from the planet. Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed in exploring this fascinating and puzzling moon of Mars in this Urdu/Hindi science documentary.
Video of this podcast is available at:
https://youtu.be/mXSmv7bcLUE
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https://www.kainaatstudios.com/
Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College and a member of the Five College Astronomy Department (FCAD) in Massachusetts, USA.
He is also the CEO of the non-profit Kainaat Studios

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34. [Urdu] Cosmology Conversation with Arsalan Adil

How did the universe start and what do we know about its expansion? What is the nature of dark energy and dark matter? Please join in this session of Kainaati Chai where we ask Arsalan Adil about these questions and about his PhD work in cosmology. He is a PhD candidate at University of California at Davis. Prior to this, Arsalan obtained his B.S. in physics and mathematics in the honors program from University of Richmond, USA.
For a video of this podcast, please see here:
https://youtu.be/_m2qONCWn8k