Modi, Belgian PM remote activate telescope in India

Brussels, March 30: Prime Minister rendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel here on Wednesday jointly remote activated Asia’s largest optical telescope, ARIES, located in India. “ARIES project is not just a government-to-government initiative,” Modi said after the activation. “It is a win-win collaboration between private sectors as well,” he said. He said that even the sky was not the limit for the project. Located at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observatiol Sciences (ARIES) at Devasthal near inital, it is a 3.6-metre telescope . India has collaborated with a Belgian company called AMOS to produce this infrared steerable optical telescope which is the first of its kind in the whole of Asia. (IANS)