India, March 1 -- In celebration of the National Science Day observed on February 28, the open campus day at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) turned into a lively celebration of ideas, experiments and imagination as students, parents and science enthusiasts spent time immersed in astronomy and physics.

The day began with visitors gathering around the iconic Foucault Pendulum at Aryabhata and "Kund" (well-like space), where volunteers introduced statues of four great scientists - Aryabhata, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Galileo Galilei - and explained their contributions. The live solar telescope gave many their first direct glimpse of the Sun. Children waited eagerly for their turn, adjusting the eye...