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East Asian Core Observatories Consortium
January 24 , 2020
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- India is in preliminary discussions to be a part of the East Asian Core Observatories Consortium of eight countries committed to build large telescopes.
- Its first task is to assume the operation of the James Clerk Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope (JCMT) on the summit of Maunakea at Hawaii.
- It consists of China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea as full members and Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia as observers.
- Having India join the group could mean the establishment of new kinds of telescopes — one proposed being in Tibet — that could aid the observation of new black holes and throw light on cosmic phenomena.
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