Science teacher’s essay wins in global astronomy project


Big win: Vadivelan with some of his pupils before the pandemic started.

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian teacher who has been reaching for the stars, even though he has never owned a telescope, can finally get a close-up of the celestial bodies that have inspired him his whole life.

Astronomy buff Vadivelan Sinnasamy, a science teacher from SJK (Tamil) Jugra, Kuala Langat, Selangor, recently bought something online that he thought would achieve the magnification required to observe the planets and stars.

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