What the voids have in store
by H.V. Ragavendra
What makes the star-studded night sky serve as a cue for pure
curiosity and trigger a subsequent train of philosophical thoughts? Well, the appeal of a starry night are the stars of course, you may say. But do you know that the voids that seem like a humble background are as interesting as the stars themselves? While the stellar objects usually steal the show in public discussions of science, Dr. Aravind, researcher of the composition and dynamics of molecules of the Interstellar Medium (ISM), raises the curtain on the play of atoms and molecules that are largely in the dark, well, literally.
