{"id":121892,"date":"2021-09-10T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=121892"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:53:29","slug":"growth-india-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/growth-india-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"GROWTH &#8211; India Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: In which of the following state of India The GROWTH &#8211; India telescope, a joint project of Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and IIT Bombay has been installed?<br><\/strong>a) Maharashtra<br>b) Ladakh<br>c) Himachal Pradesh<br>d) Goa<br><strong>Answer :(b)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On August 30, 2021; the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA).<\/li><li>The MoU, which is Valid for a period of five years, has been signed between the two, for extending the ongoing collaboration for operations and scientific utilisation of the GROWTH &#8211; India Telescope.<\/li><li><strong>The GROWTH &#8211; India telescope-<\/strong><\/li><li>The GROWTH &#8211; India telescope was set up jointly by IIA and IIT Bombay under a project and became operational in 2018.<\/li><li>It is a 0.7m wide-field telescope set up in Ladakh as a joint partnership between IIA and IIT Bombay.<\/li><li>The project has been supported by DST-SERB and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.<\/li><li>Under this partnership, the organizations agreed to jointly continue the operations of the project.<\/li><li>IIT Bombay students will continue to remotely use this robotic telescope, and will use and develop tools for observations and data processing.<\/li><li>The operations of the GROWTH &#8211; India telescope are supported by generous contribution from IIT Bombay Alumni Class of 1994.<\/li><li>This interdisciplinary project will emphasize to undertake continuous studies of cosmic sources that have rapidly-varying properties.<\/li><li>Cosmic sources under the study of this telescope are emission from gravitational wave events, young supernovae and near-earth asteroids.<\/li><li>It is the country\u2019s first fully-robotic optical telescope and one of the few such facilities present outside of Europe and the USA.<\/li><li>It has been instrumental in the research work carried on by IIT Bombay.<\/li><li>IIT Bombay students trained with this telescope collaborate with astronomers around the world.<\/li><li>The closest known asteroid (2020QG), that flew past Earth without impacting it, was discovered by two such students recently.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1753148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1753148<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In which of the following state of India The GROWTH &#8211; India telescope, a joint project of Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and IIT Bombay has been installed?a) Maharashtrab) Ladakhc) Himachal Pradeshd) GoaAnswer :(b)Related Facts:- On August 30, 2021; the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Indian Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":121893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-121892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121892","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121894,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121892\/revisions\/121894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121892"}],"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=121892"},{"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=121892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}