{"id":10982,"date":"2023-05-19T04:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:20:58","slug":"himalayan-chandra-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/himalayan-chandra-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Chandra Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Himalayan Chandra Telescope:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>2 meter optical-infrared telescopenamed after Nobel laureate Subramaniam Chandrasekhar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is at the I<strong>ndian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) in Hanle near Leh in Ladakh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is currently the <strong>tenth highest optical telescope<\/strong> in the world, situated at an <strong>elevation of 4,500 meters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The telescope <strong>remotely operated using a dedicated satellite communication link from the Centre for Research &amp; Education in Science &amp; Technology (CREST)<\/strong>, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), <strong>Bangalore<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Imaging instruments include a Faint Object Spectrograph<\/strong>, a near infra-red and an optical CCD camera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Blazer?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>type of galaxy that is powered by a humongous black hole <\/strong>and is among one of the <strong>brightest and most powerful objects in the universe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are known for<strong> emitting highly energetic particles and radiation, including gamma rays<\/strong>, X-rays, and radio waves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Optical Telescope?<\/h3>\n<p>An optical telescope is a telescope which is used to gather, and focus light, for directly viewing a magnified image, making a photograph, etc. The term is used especially for a monocular with static mounting for observing the sky. Handheld binoculars are common for other purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/indias-himalayan-telescope-observes-one-of-the-most-energetic-objects-in-universe-2380539-2023-05-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India&#8217;s Himalayan Telescope observes one of the most energetic objects in universe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan Chandra Telescope is a 2 meter optical-infrared telescopenamed after Nobel laureate Subramaniam Chandrasekhar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}