Consider the following statements with respect to ARIES observatory.

1. It has been provided India’s largest telescope recently which will provide more clearer pictures than Hubbles’ telescope.
2. It is made in collaboration with China.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans – [A] 

Explanation – Statement 2 is wrong. It is made in collaboration with the Belgium. Observatory ARIES, an autonomous research body under the Department of Science and Technology, has been given India’s largest ground-based optical telescope. It was put into operation jointly by PM of two countries. Its defining feature will be a 3.6-metre-wide primary mirror, which will collect light from its field of view and focus it onto a 0.9-m secondary mirror, which in turn will divert it into various detectors for analysis. This arrangement, called the Ritchey-Chrétien design. Although, it does capture cosmic panoramas but clarity is not better than Hubble as hubble is located in the space and Earth’s atmosphere can not interfere much as in this case.