{"id":10259,"date":"2016-04-02T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:55:34","slug":"asias-biggest-telescope-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/asias-biggest-telescope-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia&#8217;s biggest telescope launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Name the state in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel remotely launched Asia&#8217;s biggest telescope, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), built with Belgian assistance?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Uttar Pradesh<br \/>\n(b) Jammu Kashmir<br \/>\n(c) Rajasthan<br \/>\n(d) Uttarakhand<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 30 March 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel remotely launched Asia&#8217;s biggest telescope (Deosthal Optical Telescope),<\/li>\n<li>This is built by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) with Belgian assistance.<\/li>\n<li>It is a 3.6 metre optical telescope located at Deosthal in Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li>The telescope at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), has been installed in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, as a result of close collaboration between scientists from the two countries, especially between the teams of ARIES in India, and AMOS (Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems) in Belgium.<\/li>\n<li>This is a state-of-the-art world class telescope, which will contribute to observations for several frontline scientific applications.<\/li>\n<li>The large optical telescopes in India so far have mirrors of about 2-meter diameter only. The largest was the 2.3 meter diameter telescope situated at Kavalur in Tamilnadu since 1986.<\/li>\n<li>ARIES is an autonomous institute established in 2004 and is funded by Department of Science &amp; Technology, Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>The main aim of ARIES is to carry out fundamental research in the field of astronomy, astrophysics and atmospheric sciences.<\/li>\n<li>The 3.6 meter telescope was established by ARIES, Nainital with a total project cost of nearly 150 Crore rupees.<\/li>\n<li>Considering the global importance of this telescope, the Belgian government through its science department BELSPO decided to participate in this project, and financed seven-percent of its total cost.<\/li>\n<li>The telescope can target exactly within an object of about 20 meter size at 1000 km distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=138423\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=138423<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pm-belgian-pm-remotely-activate-aries-telescope-at-deosthal-uttarakhand\/?comment=disable\">http:\/\/pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pm-belgian-pm-remotely-activate-aries-telescope-at-deosthal-uttarakhand\/?comment=disable<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aries.res.in\/~aspop\/dot_rta\/press-release-DOT.pdf\">http:\/\/www.aries.res.in\/~aspop\/dot_rta\/press-release-DOT.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/narendra-modi-belgian-pm-charles-michel-jointly-launch-asias-biggest-telescope\/articleshow\/51619332.cms\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/science\/narendra-modi-belgian-pm-charles-michel-jointly-launch-asias-biggest-telescope\/articleshow\/51619332.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the state in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel remotely launched Asia&#8217;s biggest telescope, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), built with Belgian assistance? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Jammu Kashmir (c) Rajasthan (d) Uttarakhand Ans (d) Related facts: On 30 March 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}