Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated COSMOS‑Mysuru on Friday, November 13, 2026, at the University of Mysore campus with senior officials and hundreds of students in attendance.
- The Sky Theatre uses a 15‑metre tilted dome built from roughly 6,150 LED panels and about 42.7 million pixels, a direct‑emission system that delivers brighter, seamless visuals than projector‑based planetariums.
- The centre opens with a 12‑minute multilingual introductory show, two licensed productions and facilities for exhibitions, a museum, a lecture hall, a training centre and plans for data‑analysis labs and a recording studio.
- Built by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics under an MoU with the University of Mysore, COSMOS‑Mysuru received funding from the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Atomic Energy, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser and MPLADS contributions.
- Officials say the planetarium will be used for student training, live links to observatories and public outreach, which could boost regional research capacity and science tourism in Mysuru.