{"id":5860,"date":"2023-03-17T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:50:53","slug":"stellar-discoveries-highlighted-at-vainu-bappu-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/stellar-discoveries-highlighted-at-vainu-bappu-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar discoveries highlighted at Vainu Bappu Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vainu Bappu Observatory:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vainu Bappu Observatory is considered one of the most renowned observatories in India it is <strong>Located on Javadi Hills<\/strong> at Kavalur, <strong>Tamilnadu<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The 40-inch telescope was installed in 1972 and started producing important astronomical discoveries soon after. More than a generation of astronomers were trained at this telescope as well.<\/li>\n<li>The telescope in the observatory is <strong>under the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Who is Vainu Bappu?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He was an <strong>Indian astronomer<\/strong> who helped to establish several astronomical institutions in India including the Vainu Bappu Observatory which is named after him.<\/li>\n<li>He has played a significant role in astronomy with major discoveries like the <strong>presence of rings around the planet Uranus, a new satellite of Uranus, and the presence of an atmosphere around Ganymede<\/strong> which is a satellite of Jupiter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Other Observatories in India:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar Observatory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu<\/li>\n<li>Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, Ladakh<\/li>\n<li>Udaipur Solar Observatory in Udaipur, Rajasthan<\/li>\n<li>Gauribidanur Radio Observatory in Bangalore, Karnataka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0 Which is the largest telescope in India?<\/h3>\n<p>The 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope is a custom-built instrument of great complexity which has the distinction of being the largest telescope in India for study of celestial objects at optical wavelengths. It is a national facility installed at Devasthal in the district of Nainital, India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1885269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vainu Bappu Observatory is one of the most renowned observatories Located on Javadi Hills,Tamil nadu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5860","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\/5860","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=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}