Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday unveiled the foundation stone for the Cosmology Education and Research Training Centre called “COSMOS”, featuring a high-tech planetarium, on the University of Mysore’s Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar campuss.
The COSMOS, which hosts India’s first planetarium with Digistar 7 system and a Domex Screen, is scheduled for completion by March 2023 at a cost of ₹81 crore with funding from Ms. Sitharaman’s MPLAD funds and support from Department of Science and Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, and Department of Space, among others.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Sitharman said the Cosmology Centre will not only feature a planetarium from where “one can watch the beautiful midnight skies of Ladakh real-time”, but also train young minds to use astrophysics related data gathered from different observatories and telescopes in the country for other applications and useful purposes.
