Biplab Das
A science journalist and writer who has been writing since 1997 on a wide range of science and technology topics. Worked with print, audio, audio-visual and online media. Over the years, he honed his skills to tell stories of how we and other living organisms emerged on earth and our and their place in cosmos.
He is elated to get the opportunity to write for ‘Starlust’. He hopes that it will give him scope to know, explore and portray space and its unending mystery more intimately.
He is an avid reader. His favorite subjects are origin of the universe, big bang, black holes, evolution and films. The books by Carl Sagan, Paul Davies, and Lee Smolin fuel his interest in space further.
His stories appeared in online magazines of Springer Nature, UK, Australian magazine ‘Cosmos’, US-based ‘Chemical & Engineering News’, London-based ‘SciDev.Net’, and India-based ‘Down To Earth’, ‘The Telegraph’, and ‘The Statesman’. He wrote scripts for science documentary films for CSIR, New Delhi, and science radio talks for ‘All India Radio’, Kolkata and did research work for an audio-visual series on zero-waste for Mumbai-based ‘Times Television Network’.
Latest From Biplab Das
U.S. Space Force presses pause on all Vulcan Centaur launches due to booster anomaly
The rocket experienced anomalies on two of its four flights.
Artemis II: NASA identifies cause of helium issue, continues repairs inside VAB
The work began immediately after the SLS rocket reached the VAB.
Largest-ever ALMA image shows Milky Way's chaotic center in unprecedented detail
The revelations from the image will help understand how stars are born and die in the most extreme region of the galaxy.
Scientists have found a new method to detect elusive supermassive black hole binaries
Supermassive black hole binaries where the black holes are separated by short distances are extremely hard to find.
Could we possibly catch up with 3I/ATLAS? A daring new plan says 'yes'
The plan aims to launch a spacecraft directed towards the comet in 2035.
Auroras on Jupiter's moon Ganymede are not too different from those on Earth
It is a stunning discovery since the planet and the moon have different atmospheric conditions.
Dusty galaxies from the universe's far edges show star formation had begun earlier than suspected
The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.
Thick layer of volcanic ash may be hiding massive glaciers on Mars
Future human missions can target the vicinity of the volcano to set foot on the Red Planet.
Astronomers have figured out how space 'snowmen' are formed
The objects shaped like snowmen are born naturally under gravitational collapse.
James Webb Space Telescope maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere for the first time ever
The telescope detected a faint glow from molecules in the planet's upper atmosphere.
The anomalies NASA faced during Artemis II second wet dress rehearsal
Teams successfully completed the rehearsal at 10:16 pm EST despite the issues.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures a rare jellyfish galaxy from 8.5 billion years ago
The light from the rare galaxy has challenged conceptions of what the universe would have been like in the early stages.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detects a faint galaxy that is almost entirely dark matter
Hubble was aided in this hunt by the ESA's Euclid and the ground-based Subaru telescope.
Astronomers stunned by unprecedented short and hot flares emitted by a supermassive black hole
The discovery challenges existing theories of how matter close to supermassive black holes behaves.
NASA's Artemis program could benefit from this new map of small mare ridges on the Moon
The map unveils small mare ridges, geologically young features that will aid the selection of landing sites for future Moon missions.
Astronomers find molecules vital for life in a nearby star-forming cloud
The dust and gas cloud designated L1544 is located 554 light-years away in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
Billions of years ago, a wet and warm Mars was possibly in its most habitable era
Aluminium-rich pebbles found in the Jezero Crater indicate that Mars was far from a cold, icy planet billions of years ago, as stated in another theory.
A brown dwarf may have dimmed a star in what was one of the longest eclipses ever
While typical eclipses last a few days or weeks, this one lasted nearly 200 days.
Failing to go supernova, an Andromeda supergiant star quietly collapsed into a black hole
The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Astronomers have discovered a unique planetary system where planets are arranged 'inside out'
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.