NLST will study astrophysics and the sun’s influence on earth The Jammu and Kashmir government has given a green signal to the establishment of indigenous National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) — one of world’s most powerful solar telescopes — at Merak village on shore of Pangong Lake in Ladakh. To address critical problems in astrophysics and sun’s influence on earth, the telescope with an aperture of two metres is a part of Central government-sponsored Rs 300-crore project to be established by Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore. The project came…
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