The new ones – National Large Solar Telescope and National Large Optical-Near Infrared Telescope – will offer Indian ...

India has unveiled plans to build two new optical-infrared telescopes and a dedicated solar telescope in the Himalayan desert region of Ladakh. The three new facilities, expected to cost INR 35bn ...

The National Large Solar Telescope is a 2-m class optical and near infra-red (IR) observational facility in the country to boost the Astronomical Infrastructure in India. Explore the Key Objective and ...

Scientists noted that this marked the sixth occurrence in the ongoing solar cycle where such a powerful red aurora was ...

Both the telescope facilities are slated to come up in Ladakh, which already has several operational sky observation facilities, including the Chandra telescope.

The unusual spectacle resulted from a strong geomagnetic storm. (File Image) A striking blood-red aurora illuminated the high-altitude skies over the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) in Hanle, ...

On January 19-20, 2026, rare red auroras illuminated the horizon in the night skies above the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve in Ladakh. Some interesting facts about this spectacle are that it was as a result ...

A powerful solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003, caused a rare red aurora over Hanle, Ladakh. This event, ...

On the nights of January 19 and 20, the usually pitch-black skies of the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve in eastern Ladakh lit up in an extraordinary crimson glow, a rare type of aurora typically unseen so far ...