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Thirty-Metre Telescope

January 25 , 2020 1640 days 1187 0
  • 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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