Astrosat Current Affairs, GK & News

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November 5, 2011

ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan recently said that ISRO would launch its first navigation satellite next year, under its Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System programme which would be followed by six more such spacecraft. He said that ISRO was now going to make a “very major inroad” in science, and referred to Astrosat, a multi wave-length ..

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Aditya-L1 mission – Key Facts

January 31, 2022

ISRO is likely to launch “Aditya-L1 mission” to study the sun, in year 2022. Key Points The Aditya-L1 mission will be placed into a point called L1 Lagrange point. This mission will be ISRO’s 2nd space-based astronomy mission after AstroSat. AstroSat was launched in 2015. Aditya-L1 was earlier named as Aditya 1 and was meant ..

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UVIT of ISRO: Rare UV-Bright Stars spotted

January 22, 2021

The Astronomers have spotted massive hot UV-Bright stars in Milky Way Galaxy with the help of UVIT. UVIT is Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope. It is placed in Astrosat satellite. The Astrosat is the first multi wavelength space satellite of India. UV-Bright Star: Recent Observation of UVIT The Astronomers have successfully distinguished the UV-bright star cluster ..

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India’s ASTROSAT completes five successful years of mapping stars

September 29, 2020

The ASTROSAT was the first multi-wavelength satellite launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). It was launched on September 28, 2015. It has now completed five years of successful imaging of celestial objects. Highlights The ASTROSAT explored stars, star clusters and mapped large and small galaxies of Milky Way galaxy called “Magellanic Clouds”. The Magellanic ..

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ASTROSAT detected UV light from a galaxy, 9.3 billion light-years away

August 25, 2020

Pune based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics confirmed that the AstroSat satellite has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) ray from a galaxy that is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth. What is ASTROSAT? Astrosat is the first multi-wavelength space telescope launched by ISRO from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in 2015. It has a set ..

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AstroSat used by Indian astronomers to identify a new group of stars in globular cluster NGC 2808

March 13, 2019

By using Indian multi-wavelength space observatory AstroSat, the astronomers from Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai have identified a new population of ultraviolet stars in the globular cluster NGC 2808. Globular clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars, moving as one unit. These stars are tightly held together by gravity of the cluster itself, and are ..

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