Standing atop Mt. Saraswati in the Hanle Valley of Changthang, Ladakh, at nearly 14,800 feet above the mean sea level is the Indian Space Observatory—the third highest optical observatory in the world. And this is its story.
Presumably dating back to 3,600 BC, the petroglyph in the Burzahama region of Kashmir may be an accurate depiction of a supernova explosion from the prehistoric times.
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