{"id":28600,"date":"2024-12-10T06:54:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28600"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:07:56","slug":"subaru-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/subaru-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Subaru Telescope:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Japanese<\/strong> 8.2-metre (27-foot) <strong>optical-infrared telescope.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>located on<\/strong> the <strong>dormant volcano Mauna Kea <\/strong>(4,163 metres) on the <strong>island of Hawaii.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The telescope is named for the Japanese name for the Pleiades and is <strong>operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Construction on Subaru began in 1992, and the <strong>first observations<\/strong> were made in <strong>1999<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>An <strong>adaptive optics system<\/strong> consisting of 261 actuators can change the shape of the mirror so that it is not affected by deformations caused by gravity.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>powerful light-collecting capability can capture weak light from celestial objects<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To minimize air turbulence near the telescope, the dome that surrounds the telescope is cylindrical instead of a hemisphere, as is the case with most other observatories.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Subaru Telescope has <strong>observed various celestial bodies, from nearby shooting stars to galaxies <\/strong>located 13.1 billion light years away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is an infrared telescope?<\/h3>\n<p>An infrared telescope is an instrument designed to detect and resolve infrared radiation from sources outside Earth\u2019s atmosphere such as nebulae, young stars, and gas and dust in other galaxies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/science\/subaru-telescope-captures-spectacular-pair-of-interacting-galaxies-2768995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subaru Telescope captures spectacular pair of interacting galaxies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subaru Telescope is a Japanese 8.2-metre (27-foot) optical-infrared telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28600","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\/28600","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=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}