India participates in building giant telescopes

According to a reporter in New Delhi, India marked a big step forward in space science, with four other partners, the US, Japan, China and Canada, participating in the project worth about 1.5 billion. USD builds and operates the world's largest telescope at Hawaii Island in the United States.

Huge telescope in Hawaii.(Source: wikipedia)

The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the world's largest telescope telescope with a diameter of 30m (TMT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the inactive volcano 4.205m above sea level, took place on October 7 just past.

The TMT program director of India, Eswar Reddy, said that with the main mirror design with a diameter of 30m, TMT allows 9 times of light gathering, 3 times increase in definition compared to the largest telescope The current.

When the giant telescope was completed in 2018, scientists were able to observe newly formed planets and stars, 13 billion light-years away from Earth or to understand the origin of extrasolar planets, black holes, dark matter and dark energy.

The total cost for TMT project is estimated at 1.5 billion USD, of which India contributes about 216 million USD.

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