[Urdu/Hindi] Why are Uranus and Neptune Blue?

03/20/23 • 18 min

Ice giants Uranus and Neptune have beautiful blue colors. Why are they blue, when Jupiter and Saturn are not? Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed in exploring these two planets and their atmosphere in this Urdu/Hindi science episode of Kainaati Gup Shup.

For video of this podcast: https://youtu.be/LZSjy7hkHdU

For video of this podcast: https://youtu.be/LZSjy7hkHdU

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[Urdu/Hindi] Chai with Umer Piracha: Music, Wonder, and Astronomy

How does a sense of wonder translate into music? Many of you like the Kainaat Theme music for Kainaati Gup Shup. It is by Umer Piracha, who is also the lead vocalist for the band Falsa. He also performs with the eclectic Charu Suri & Friends. Here Umer Piracha and astrophysicist Salman Hameed talk about the creation of music inspired by discoveries in astronomy and the vastness of the universe. As a bonus, he also sings during the interview!

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[Urdu/Hindi] Imaging the Black Hole in the Milky Way

Black holes are the strangest objects in the universe. Astronomers have known for some time about the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. They called it Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*. Just recently, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers for the first imaged the light right outside the event horizon of this black hole. A few years ago, EHT also imaged the central black hole in the galaxy M87. Please join astrophysicist Salman Hameed is exploring how this was done and why it was more difficult to "see" our own black hole in the Milky Way compared to the one in M87, 55 million light years away.

For video of this podcast: https://youtu.be/ovYiGH3cqmI