India Helps Hawaii in getting Gigantic Telescope. The largest “eye on the universe,” is quickly taking shape. Here’s you need to know everything!
An optical, infrared, thirty-meter telescope (TMT), the largest “eye on the universe,” is quickly taking shape. With a crucial support from Indian scientists, engineers, and businesses at its project area on Maunakea- in the US state of Hawaii.
The contentious Thirty Meter Telescope, which is planned to be built on Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s tallest mountain, has won support due to the state Supreme Court’s 4-1 decision on Tuesday. Opponents claim that the telescope will pollute sacred areas on the Big Island. According to supporters, the state will benefit from increased economic and educational prospects.
Astronomers will be able to watch the formation of new planets and stars with the help of the TMT telescope. Which will be able to observe planets that circle stars other than the sun. It should also help researchers in obtaining an insight into the ancient cosmos from a location some 13 billion light years away.
According to Dr. Prasanna Deshmukh, one of the 35-year-old scientists working on the massive project. The TMT will be the largest scope ever built by the globe and will cost more than $2.6 billion. It will be built with cooperation from China, Japan, Canada, the US, and India.
How India Will Help Hawaii?
The 10 percent of the telescope’s construction costs are expected to be covered by India. This will consist of 70% in-kind contributions in the form of tools and components. This collaboration would also improve India’s technological capabilities in high-tech fields including telescope’s segment figuring and polishing, mirror support system, edge sensor construction and testing, software for observatory operations, data analysis pipelines, and adaptive optics techniques.
The project would be led by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) Bangalore from the Indian side, with assistance from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, and Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital.
