{"id":9229,"date":"2022-10-22T01:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:32:46","slug":"sampurnanand-telescope-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sampurnanand-telescope-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampurnanand Telescope (ST)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sampurnanand Telescope (ST):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a world-class telescope\u00a0<strong>located near Nainital.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The telescope at\u00a0<strong>Manora Peak was established in 1972\u00a0<\/strong>when ARIES was known as the UP State Observatory (UPSO).<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0has been extensively used for optical observations of comets, occultation by planets and asteroids, star-forming regions and star clusters, variable stars, transients, active galactic nuclei, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the breakthrough science results contributed by the telescope include the discovery of new rings around Saturn and the rings of Uranus.<\/li>\n<li>The instrumentation and science capabilities of ST have paved the way for setting up National and International facilities by ARIES, such as the 3.6m DOT and the 4 meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope at Devasthal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1870028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sampurnanand Telescope (ST) is a world-class telescope located near Nainital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9229","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\/9229","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=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}