Astrosat Current Affairs, GK & News
UVIT of ISRO: Rare UV-Bright Stars spotted
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 ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Astrosat • ISRO • Milky Way • Space Telescope • Ultra Violet • UV Bright star • UVIT
India’s ASTROSAT completes five successful years of mapping stars
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 ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Astrosat • AstroSat-2 • Galaxy • ISRO • NASA
ASTROSAT detected UV light from a galaxy, 9.3 billion light-years away
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 ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Astrosat • Hubble Space Telescope • ISRO • NASA • Ultraviolet
AstroSat used by Indian astronomers to identify a new group of stars in globular cluster NGC 2808
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 ..
Topics: Astronomical objects • Astronomy • Astrosat • AstroSat-2 • Globular cluster • In India • NGC • Space observatories • Spacecraft • STAR • Star clusters • X-ray telescopes
New population of Ultraviolet Stars Identified in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808
Astronomers from Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai have identified a new population of ultraviolet stars in the globular cluster NGC 2808 using the Indian multi-wavelength space observatory AstroSat, launched in September 2015. AstroSat AstroSat is India’s dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory which endeavours for a more detailed understanding of our universe. ASTROSAT observes the universe in the optical, ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Astrosat • Globular cluster • Mumbai • NGC 2808 • Thiruvananthapuram • Ultraviolet Stars