BRUSSELS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel today remotely launched Asia’s biggest telescope, the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), built with Belgian assistance.
“Prime Minister Michel and I have just activated, remotely, India’s largest optical telescope,” Modi said after launching the telescope with a 3.6-metre-wide primary mirror located at Devasthal near Nainital in Uttarakhand.
“Even sky is not the limit,” he said, referring to the cooperation between the two countries on various projects.
ARIES, the largest optical telescope of its kind in Asia, is a product of Indo-Belgian collaboration. It will be used to study star structures and magnetic field structures of stars. (AGENCIES)
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