In a major milestone moment for India, India’s first multi-wavelength satellite observatory ASTROSAT has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy named “AUDFs01” which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, The Hindu reported.
This breakthrough was made by the Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). This information was made public by IUCAA on Monday (24 August) whose scientists led the global team which made the major breakthrough.
The team was led by Dr Kanak Saha, associate professor of astronomy at the IUCAA. Dr Saha led a team of 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.
After two years of careful data analysis, it was confirmed that the emission was indeed from the said galaxy. It must be noted that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) could not detect the UV light from AUDFs01.