{"id":27411,"date":"2020-08-27T05:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=27411"},"modified":"2020-08-27T05:07:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:07:53","slug":"indias-astrosat-made-rare-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indias-astrosat-made-rare-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s ASTROSAT made rare discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AstroSat, India\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astrosat, India&#8217;s first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope, was launched by ISRO on a PSLV-XL in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The scientific payload contains six instruments.<\/li><li>The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)<\/li><li>The Soft X-ray imaging Telescope (SXT)<\/li><li>The LAXPC Instrument<\/li><li>The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI)<\/li><li>The Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM)<\/li><li>The Charged Particle Monitor (CPM)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstroSat, India\u2019s 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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