Russia places a giant space telescope at the bottom of the world's largest lakes

Moscow-Sana

Russia has placed a unique telescope, the largest of its kind, in the depths of the huge lake Baikal, with the aim of carrying out cosmic studies and space explorations.

"The Baikal GVD telescope, which is the largest (neutrino) telescope in the depths of the Russian Lake Baikal, will help in exploring the universe, research and new astrophysical astronomy," Sputnik news agency quoted a statement issued by the Russian Ministry of Education today.

And scientists considered that this event is one of the main scientific events in Russia from a scientific and technological point of view in the country.

The new telescope provides scientists with unprecedented opportunities to conduct geophysical, hydrological and marine research with the aim of studying the evolution of galaxies and the universe, and helps answer the main questions of astronomy and astrophysics, especially in areas where it is necessary to study ultra-high-altitude energy flows of neutrinos from astrophysical sources.

Scientists believe that neutrinos can reach Earth without major changes from the depths of infant or dying galaxies and provide information about the nature and location of cosmic events that come after millions to billions of years, and the new telescope will be involved in hunt such neutrinos.

The project was developed under the guidance of researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Nuclear Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Scientists and engineers from the Russian scientific centers of the Irkutsk Provincial University, Nizhny Novgorod Technical University, Saint Petersburg State Maritime Technical University and others, as well as with the participation of scientists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, participated in the large project.