{"id":4649,"date":"2023-01-07T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:07:03","slug":"what-is-astro-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-astro-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Astro Tourism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Astro Tourism:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Astro tourism<\/strong> is an experiential travel trend, that combines travellers interest in astronomy, night sky along with the love for exploring new remote locations.<\/li>\n<li>It also boosts nature-based travelling, tapping on growing interest of tourists to discover destinations that offer the luxury of being close to nature in a comfortable accommodation.<\/li>\n<li>The Astro Tourism event includes various activities like Astro Talks by expert Astronomers, an Exhibition on Astronomy, Storytelling related to celestial objects, an Experience of using the telescope to see the craters of the Moon, Astronomy Activities, a Photographic Panel Exhibition, and Astro-Photography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Astronomy?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That includes objects we can see with our naked eyes, like the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=MoS-for-Culture-Arjun-Ram-Meghwal-inaugurates-Astro-Tourism-%e2%80%93-A-Sky-Gazing-event-at-Delhi%e2%80%99s-India-Gate&amp;id=453623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>MoS for Culture Arjun Ram Meghwal inaugurates Astro Tourism \u2013 A Sky Gazing event at Delhi\u2019s India Gate<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astro tourism combines travellers interest in astronomy along with the love for exploring new remote locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4649","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\/4649","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=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}