The Cosmology Education and Research Training Centre (COSMOS) is an upcoming LED Dome planetarium and a research training centre in the city of Mysuru, Karnataka, India. This will be the world's first independent 8K resolution LED dome planetarium, which is the next big leap in planetarium technology. The project is being supported under the MPLADS funds of the Hon'ble Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, and the DST, DAE, DoS, and other organisations. This project is steered by the Principal Scientific Advisor to GoI (PSA) and is managed by IIA.
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has started a comprehensive education and outreach program in Mysuru city and its neighbourhood well ahead of the construction of the planetarium. The general objectives of the program are to promote interest in astronomy & STEM in general, partner with Planetaria across India and be a hub for STEM training in a dome and skill development for science teachers, develop a scientific temper among the public, propagate rationality and critical thinking and to provide a platform for students to program their own shows for the LED Dome. In addition, some unique features of the program include using the LED Dome for data visualisation and analysis in various fields of STEM and in particular, data from Indian telescopes, and to focus on astronomy popularisation in the Kannada language & the rural areas of the state of Karnataka.