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January 25 , 2020
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- India Wants Thirty-Metre Telescope Shifted Out of Hawaii of USA.
- India has committed 10% of the project's resources, a sum of about Rs 1,423 crore.
- Once it is built, the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) will become one of the world’s largest general-purpose observatories and one of the largest visible-light telescopes.
- It will allow astronomers to study the outer reaches of the universe and study distant stars and exoplanets than much greater detail than is currently possible.
- TMT has been proposed atop the dormant Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
- The Volcano is also a sacred location for the island’s native population.
About TMT
- The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is an astronomical observatory with an extremely large telescope (ELT).
- It is an international project being funded by scientific organisations of Canada, China, India, Japan and USA.
- The TMT is designed for near-ultraviolet to mid-infrared observations, featuring adaptive optics to assist in correcting image blur.
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