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India’s ASTROSAT Satellite Achieves Rare Feat; Detects Extreme UV Light From A Galaxy 9.3 Billion Light-Years Away
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Aug 25, 2020, 10:41 AM | Updated Aug 31, 2023, 04:09 PM IST
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In a major achievement for India's first multi-wavelength satellite observatory called ASTROSAT, it has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy named "AUDFs01" which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, reports The Hindu.
The development was made public by Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) on Monday (24 August) whose scientists led the global team which made the major breakthrough.
The global team was led by Dr Kanak Saha who is an associate professor of astronomy at the IUCAA. She led a team comprising scientists from India, France, Switzerland, the United States (US), Japan and Netherlands and observed the far-away galaxy which is located in the Hubble Extreme Deep Field.
It took the team led by Saha two years of careful data analysis to confirm that the emission was indeed from the said galaxy.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that earlier, NASA's much more powerful and larger Hubble Space Telescope (HST) could not the UV light from the said galaxy in the past.
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