Abekta is a knowledge-base created by Khan Asad, a struggling astronomer and an assistant professor at the Department of Physical Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He runs the Computational & Observational Astronomy Lab (COALab), a research lab of IUB. But everything expressed in this website are his personal views and do not represent IUB in any way whatsoever.

The website is named after Jagadish Chandra Basu's book Abyakta (অব্যক্ত); Abekta is a medieval spelling of Abyakta.