The Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen will focus on three scientific themes a......

The Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen will focus on three scientific themes associated with astronomy. This does not includes-

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    The GROWTH-India telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory located in Hanle, Ladakh, has made its first science observation.
    The observation is a follow up study of nova explosion.
GROWTH-India telescope-

• It is the country’s first robotic telescope and the first one designed to observe dynamic, or transient, events in the universe.
•  It was developed as a joint project by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIAp), Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
• It is part of a multi-country collaborative initiative known as Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) to observe transient events in the universe.
• The project was funded under Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) project, administered by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

GROWTH initiative-

•  It is an international collaborative network of astronomers and telescopes dedicated to the study of short-lived cosmic transients and near-earth asteroids.
•  Universities and research institutes from the US, the UK, Japan, India, Germany, Taiwan and Israel are part of the initiative.
•  Indian Institute of Astrophysics is the collaborating partner from the India.
•  Goal: Its goals are threefold: (1) Search for explosions in the optical regime whenever LIGO group detects a Binary Neutron Star merger (2) study nearby young supernova explosions. (3) Study nearby asteroids.

By: Cammy Garg