India’s ASTROSAT made rare discovery

AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength satellite that has five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes working in tandem, has detected extreme UV light from a galaxy called AUDFs01, 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth.

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A global team led by scientists of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has discovered one of the earliest galaxies in extreme ultraviolet light.

Astrosat, India’s first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope, was launched by ISRO on a PSLV-XL in 2015.

• The scientific payload contains six instruments.
• The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)
• The Soft X-ray imaging Telescope (SXT)
• The LAXPC Instrument
• The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI)
• The Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM)
• The Charged Particle Monitor (CPM)