{"id":108476,"date":"2021-05-24T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=108476"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:50:46","slug":"brics-astronomy-working-group-proposes-networking-of-existing-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brics-astronomy-working-group-proposes-networking-of-existing-telescopes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;BRICS Astronomy Working Group&#8221; Proposes Networking of Existing Telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India virtually hosted the 7th meeting of the BRICS Astronomy Working Group (BAWG) under the Science, Technology, and Innovation track of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-hosts-meeting-of-brics-finance-and-central-bank-meeting-2021\/\">BRICS 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>India has assumed the BRICS Presidency from January 2021.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About BRICS Astronomy Working Group(BAWG):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Astronomy was established<\/strong> as one of five thematic science areas within <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answereddiscuss-the-role-of-brics-as-a-bridge-between-developed-and-developing-countries-what-are-its-current-concerns-and-issues-that-must-be-resolved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRICS<\/a> at a ministerial meeting held in South Africa in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formed in: <\/strong>The BRICS Astronomy Working Group(BAWG) established in 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: The group provides a platform for the BRICS member countries to collaborate in the field of astronomy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About 7th BRICS Astronomy Working Group(BAWG) Meeting:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Department of Science and Technology(DST)<\/strong>, Government of India, and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune coordinated the meeting from the Indian side.<\/li>\n<li><strong>During the meeting, <\/strong>the countries recommended the networking of existing telescopes in BRICS countries and creating regional data networks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further, the members recommended <\/strong>that each country should present the scientific results of the work being carried out in their country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, the countries <\/strong>indicated research in the following areas. Such as, building networks of intelligent telescopes, a study of transient astronomical phenomena in the universe, Big data, Artificial Intelligence among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About BRICS:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, BRICS <\/strong>is the acronym coined for an association of five major emerging national economies. It stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, BRICS does not exist <\/strong>in the form of organization, but it is an annual summit between the supreme leaders of five nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly, Chairmanship<\/strong>: The Chairmanship of the forum is rotated annually among the members, in accordance with the acronym B-R-I-C-S.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourthly, Recent Summits: <\/strong>The 2020 BRICS summit was the twelfth annual BRICS summit.It was hosted by Russia. The theme was \u201cGlobal Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifthly, BRICS 2021: <\/strong>The chair of BRICS 2021 is in India. It will be the third time that India will be hosting the BRICS Summit after 2012 and 2016.\n<ul>\n<li>The theme of the Summit is, \u2018BRICS @ 15: Intra-BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GU38JQBLQ.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India virtually hosted the 7th meeting of the BRICS Astronomy Working Group (BAWG) under the Science, Technology, and Innovation track of the BRICS 2021. Note: India has assumed the BRICS Presidency from January 2021. About BRICS Astronomy Working Group(BAWG): Astronomy was established as one of five thematic science areas within BRICS&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/brics-astronomy-working-group-proposes-networking-of-existing-telescopes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;BRICS Astronomy Working Group&#8221; Proposes Networking of Existing Telescopes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,9],"tags":[1420],"class_list":["post-108476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704704243},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}