The second edition of "Conference On Blazars and Restless AGNs (COBRA): A High-Energy View", jointly organized by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. This year, we are delighted to host the meeting at IISER, Mohali from July 1-3, 2026.
The conference is…
Aditya-L1 Proposal Writing and Submission Workshop will be conducted online on 21st April, 2026.
Last Date of application: 19 April, 2026
Please register at the following link and please find more information from the attached poster.
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13th Aditya-L1 Support Cell Workshop will be conducted from 06 - 15 July, 2026 at ARIES, Nainital.
Last Date of application: 22 May, 2026
Please find more information from the following link and the attached poster.
https://al1ssc.aries.res.in/workshop-13
ICTS Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
13 July 2026 to 24 July 2026
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru, India
URL: https://icts.res.in/program/gwa2026
Application deadline: 15 May 2026
Applications are invited…
Gravitational Wave Instrumentation Workshop Summer Edition - 2026 will be held from June 29 - July 10, 2026, at IUCAA, Pune. This workshop is designed to introduce MSc/early-PhD students to GW Instrumentation.
Please find more information from following link.
ISRO has announced the second Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the Aditya-L1 mission, inviting the Indian solar physics community to submit proposals for Aditya-L1 observation time.
Deadline of proposal submission is 30 April 2026. For more details, please visit https://www.isro.gov.in/…
Please find attached the Sky News for April 2026.
Lunar Occultation Event on 29 Mar 2026
Regulus (Alpha Leonis) Mahga मघा will be occulted by the Moon on the night of 29 March 2026. This event is visible to the naked eye. For more information, Please visit
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Please find attached the Sky News for March 2026.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
XSPECT onboard XPoSat, ToO data for the source 1A 1118-61 is available for download. The source was observed from 23 Jan to 31 Jan and from 5 Feb to 12 Feb 2026. Please visit https://pradan1.issdc.gov.in/x01/ for data download.
Announcement for the 2nd SKA-India Summer Training School 2026 at IIT-Kanpur (SKA training school - II)
We are pleased to announce the second Square Kilometre Array(SKA)-India Summer Training School 2026, which will be held from June 29 to July 10, 2026, at IIT Kanpur. This pioneering initiative, organised under the SKA-India consortium, marks an important step in…
The ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences (ATSOAA 2026) will be organized by ARIES, Nainital, from April 20 to April 30, 2026.
Last date of application: 25 February 2026.
Please find more information from the following link.
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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