‘World Class’ Optical Telescope, and India’s Largest, launched Iin Devasthal Uttrakhand near Nainital.

‘World Class’ Optical Telescope, and India’s Largest, to Be Activated Iin Devasthal near Nainital.

-Built by  an Indo-Belgian collaborative effort, assisted by the Russian Academy of Sciences, that was kicked off in 2007. 

-It is going to be operated by the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous research body under the Department of Science and Technology.

The Devasthal optical telescope will also be Asia’s largest ground-based optical telescope, succeeding the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu.

The telescope – held by ARIES to be of “world class”

– will be able to log the physical and chemical properties of stars and star clusters, high-energy radiation emanating from sources like blackholes; and the formation and properties of exoplanets.

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Devasthal, Uttrakhand