<P> The GMRT is located about 80 km north of Pune at Khodad . A nearby town is Narayangaon which is around 9 km from the telescope site . The office of NCRA is located in the Savitribai Phule Pune University campus . </P> <P> One of the aims for the telescope during its development was to search for the highly redshifted 21 - cm line radiation from primordial neutral hydrogen clouds in order to determine the epoch of galaxy formation in the universe . </P> <P> Astronomers from all over the world regularly use this telescope to observe many different astronomical objects such as HII regions, galaxies, pulsars, supernovae, and Sun and solar winds . </P> <P> Each year on National Science Day the observatory invites the public and pupils from schools and colleges in the surrounding area to visit the site where they can listen to explanations of radio astronomy, receiver technology and astronomy from the engineers and astronomers who work there . Nearby schools / colleges are also invited to put their individual science experiments in exhibition and the best one in each level (primary, secondary school and Jr. college) are awarded . </P>

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