World’s largest telescope ‘Eye on the Universe’, worth $2.6 Billion, coming up in Hawaii with Indian scientists’ help
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The world's largest "eye on the universe", an Optical, Infra-red, Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT), is fast coming up with critical help from Indian scientists, engineers and industries at its proposed location in Maunakea in US' Hawaii. The TMT will be the most gigantic scope ever to be constructed by the world at a cost of over $2.6 billion, with collaboration of India, US, Japan, Canada and China, said Dr. Deshmukh.