GMRT

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, located near Pune, Junnar, near Narayangaon at khodad in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths. It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. It was conceived and built under the direction of Late Prof. Govind Swarup during 1984 to 1996. It is an interferometric array with baselines of up to 25 kilometres. It was recently upgraded with new receivers, after which it is also known as the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

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India's GMRT receives first-ever signal from distant galaxy, 880 million light years away

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