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Write short note : GMRT
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- Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is a large radio telescope erected at Narayangaon near Pune.
- It uses radio waves having wavelengths of about a metre, coming from heavenly bodies to study those bodies. This telescope is actually a collection of 30 dishes, each having a diameter of 45 m.
- It is called a giant telescope as the arrangement of the 30 dishes over an area which measures up to 25 km across. It works as a single dish having a diameter of 25 km.
- GMRT gives the same data that we would have got from a telescope having a single dish of 25 km diameter.
- Scientists study the solar system, solar winds, pulsars, supernova, interstellar hydrogen clouds, etc. with the help of the GMRT.
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