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World’s first Liquid-Mirror Telescope finds its home in the Indian Himalayas

Times Now | 03/06/2022 11:40 PM | Click to read full article

A new telescope facility atop a mountain in the Himalayan range will now keep a watch on the overhead sky to identify transient or variable objects such as supernovae, gravitational lenses, space debris, and asteroids.

The telescope is commissioned at Devasthal, a hill in Uttarakhand and is the first liquid mirror telescope in the country and the largest in Asia.

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