How to Make a Striking Career in Astrophysics?
Your iPhone clicks clear images. It can make videos as well. And you are quite excited about it. But do you know that the technology your iPhone camera uses was originally developed for astronomy & space sciences?
There is a little bit of space engineering and technology in everyone’s life. For example, CAT scanners and MRIs are based on space engineering. Similarly, mobile services work on space technology. Also, astronomy has developed into a career as it is used in everyday life. You also use the technology in one way or the other.
Let’s start discussing space engineering and its every day uses
Mobile Cameras
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is the technology used for charging mobile cameras, webcams, and Smartphones. It converts the movement of electrical charge into a digital value. Your iPhone camera relies on this technology that is a gift from astrophysics.
Courier
Ever wondered how FedEx delivers its packages with ultimate accuracy. You could say that FedEx is a big company with hundreds of employees but the truth is that it uses a specific technology that is software originally written for computers. Its job is to analyze systems. But FedEx has found industrial use of the software.
Mobile Technology
AT&T is a giant mobile service provider but a lesser-known fact about its growth and expansion is the use of engineering sciences. It uses IRAF, software that analyzes computer systems. Other mobile network carriers also rely on space engineering.
Kodak Film
The film widely used in the medical field for imaging was primarily developed for studying the sun. But today it has found uses in developing photographs and artwork. Also, it has many industries.
Clean Energy
Clean energy doesn’t look like a distant goal with Physical Sciences. Space engineering has made it possible. It is the technology that large telescopes use to keep their glasses clean of dust particles to get a clear view of the space. Similar technology is used in hospitals and laboratories to keep the instrument clean.
Medical Research
CAT scanners and MRIs rely heavily on space engineering as both the technology are similar. In medical research, you try seeing untraceable objects in the human body, and in space engineering, you try checking the grey matter.
Defense System
The satellites used by security forces to track enemy movement are advanced space-based telescopes. It is one of the marvels of science and technology in India. These satellites are the eyes and ears of the security forces.
Airports
The luggage scanner used at airports was originally an X-ray machine developed for reading grey matter in the space. Also, the gas-based machine used for luggage scanning for explosives was developed for the Mars mission.
In India, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) produces astrophysicists. It is one of the leading institutions of space engineering and it is passing new milestones every day. If you want to make a career in astrophysics, you need to study science in school and college and then join a leading institution of learning. There are plenty of career options in astrophysics.