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NEW DELHI: Ladakh will soon have South East Asia’s first Night Sky sanctuary, Union Minister Jitendra Singh, has said. He said the sanctuary was being set up with the help of Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru.
He said on behalf of the Ministry of Science & Technology and CSIR, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be requested to inaugurate the Night Sky Reserve at Hanle.
Spread over 1,073sq km, the Night Sky Reserve will be located at Hanle village in Eastern Ladakh as a part of Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary. It will boost astrotourism and will be one of the world’s highest-located sites for optical, infra-red, and gamma-ray telescopes “At a time when the country is celebrating the success of Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1 solar mission, this Dark Sky Reserve will fascinate the stargazers, being among only the 15 or 16 of its kind in the world,” said Singh.
