Astrosat: GK, General Studies and Current Affairs

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 ..

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 ..