A 45 meter high indigenous telescope was established in Ladakh

New Delhi, Jan 19, 2020 Sunday

An 8-meter-high indigenous telescope has been installed near Hanley, 2 km from Leh, to study various events in space. The telescope has been designed at the Bhabha Atomic Center. The Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), together with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Bengaluru) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), has designed a 4-meter-wide, 4-meter-wide telescope.

In addition, Electronic Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) was their industrial partner and the telescope has been established at Hanale, Ladakh. The global mega-science exhibition-science conclave will be held at the National Science Center from January 1 to March 8, and during the press conference held for the exhibition, scientific officer of the BARC Niley Bhatt presented information about the telescope.

The telescope has been designed with 3 small glasses and a camera has been fitted below it. With the reflector mounted on the glass, photos of the spacecraft can be captured in the camera and gamma-rays can also be seen with the help of a telescope. Gamma-rays are a common light, but they are very powerful and cannot be viewed without a telescope. With the help of this telescope, the space can be seen up to 100,000 light years away. The speed of one second is three lakh km and within one year in a single light year, the light reaches 7,000 million km away.

The telescope was established a month ago at Hanley, and students from educational institutions across the country will be able to take advantage of it. Soon, various educational institutions will be invited to write a letter to help their students benefit from the telescope.