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Prakhar Maurya
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Physics student @ IISER Pune
Astronomy | Astrophysics | Cosmology | Machine Learning
Personal Website: mphysicus.github.io
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Discovery of "Alaknanda": A massive, grand-design spiral galaxy found just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang!

Found by Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar (NCRA-TIFR) using #JWST data. Its well-formed spiral arms challenge our understanding of how quickly galaxies settled into stable disks.
Left panel: Image of Alaknanda in rest-frame near-ultraviolet filters. Right panel: Alaknanda as seen in rest-frame optical filters. Credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, Rashi Jain (NCRA-TIFR)
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Microsoft’s “agentic” OS push is shaping up to be a privacy and security nightmare.
Been using Linux Mint for the past 2 months and it's been amazing.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Beautiful Aadrai Jungle in the monsoon - waterfalls, mist and endless green.

📍Aadrai Jungle, Pune, India

#nature #sahyadris #photography
Still lake with hills and clouds in the background. Waterfall in a deep green valley with a cloudy sky. Green field with misty mountains. Waterfalls on a foggy cliff with forest below.
July 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Just a random shot of the trees by the lake shore.
#nature #photography
Tall trees on a grassy lake shore with a cloudy sky overhead. Sunlight peeks through the tree branches, casting light and shadow across the scene. Mountains are faintly visible in the background beneath the overcast sky.
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This is really cool !!
Skysynth on the Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) Skyviewer lets you compose music from the colors and brightness of stars and galaxies 🌌✨🎶.
Try it out: skyviewer.app
For more details: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

#Astronomy #RubinObservatory
June 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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📍Panchawati hills, Pune, India
#photography #nature
Cloudy sky over a cityscape with lush green trees in the foreground. Verdant landscape with water-filled patches and rocky cliffs under a cloudy sky. Sun peeking through thick clouds above a green clearing with scattered trees.
June 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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NCRA-TIFR'S unofficial researcher....

#NCRA #TIFR #photography
A cat lying on a concrete ledge with trees and greenery in the background, taken at NCRA-TIFR, Pune.
June 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Fresh release from @galaxyzoo.org team!
Morphology data for 378k Euclid galaxies 🌌 now public, with models and PCA reps.
Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2503.15310

#astronomy #astrophysics #galaxyzoo #Euclid #galaxies
Screenshot from the Galaxy Zoo website showing the new data release.
May 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Happy π day.
#Pi #π
March 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Beautiful #poem by Kahlil Gibran: "On Children"
#poetry
December 27, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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Rajgad Fort, Maharashtra, India
#photography #nature
A scenic hillside with a pond, purple wildflowers, a stone pathway, and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky.
December 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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The night sky in all its beauty ✨ Captured these stars on my smartphone.🌃
#astrophotography
December 16, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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📍near Sinhagad Fort, Pune, Maharashtra, India
#nature #photography
A green landscape with dense trees, a grassy clearing, and mist-covered hills under an overcast sky.
December 12, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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Beautiful Pawna Lake, 📍Maharashtra, India
#Photography #nature
A tranquil sunset with golden rays fanning out behind a silhouetted mountain, reflecting on a calm lake, framed by palm trees and vegetation. A scenic view of a sunset with a silhouetted mountain in the background, vibrant pink and orange hues in the sky reflecting on a lake. The foreground features a metal frame structure with glowing colored lights, adding an architectural element to the natural landscape. A starry night sky reflected on a calm lake, with distant lights dotting the shoreline. Serene morning at the lake with a majestic mountain in the distance.
December 10, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Some moon shots I clicked last year.
#astrophotography
Image of the moon. Image of the moon.
December 9, 2024 at 2:48 AM