Chianese highest altitude telescopes at border with India |
China is setting up the world`s highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet, close to Line of Actual Control with India, with a budget of USD 18.8 million to detect faintest echoes resonating from universe which may reveal more about the Big Bang theory.Construction has started for the first telescope, code-named Ngari No 1, 30 km south of Shiquanhe Town in Ngari Prefecture, said Yao Yongqiang chief researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Parts of Nagri is last Tibetan prefecture at China`s border with India. The telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere. It is expected to be operational by 2021. Yao said the second phase involves a series of telescopes, code-named Ngari No 2, to be located about 6,000 meters above sea level. Ngari, with its high altitude, clear sky and minimal human activity is said to be one of the world`s best spots to detect tiny twists in cosmic light.
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