India is likely to begin construction of the world’s largest solar telescope on the foothills of the Himalayas in Ladakh to understand the fundamental processes taking place on the Sun by year-end, a senior official said Saturday.
A 2-metre class, state-of-the-art National Large Solar Telescope (NLST), built by Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), will permit Indian scientists to carry out cutting edge research aimed to study Sun’s atmosphere.
“A detailed project report has been submitted to the union government and we will be able to begin construction of telescope by end of this year. The project is likely to be completed by 2017,” IIA former director Siraj Hasan said while speaking at a session in the Indian Science Congress.
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