Noted cosmologist Hamsa Padmanabhan has said the growing affinity among the people in Kerala towards astronomy augurs well for the State’s scientific development.
Dr. Padmanabhan, the daughter of the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Thanu Padmanabhan, was speaking while inaugurating a two-day workshop on cosmology and astronomy at the Astronomical Observatory here on Thursday. She is currently principal investigator at the University of Geneva.
The first light images from the Observatory, which were recently published by the Nature Astronomy journal, and those of Orion Nebula (a nebula in the Milky Way) and Venus were formally released on the occasion.
