NASA has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one
of the farthest Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be located 9.3
billion light-years away from Earth.
Washington DC
[USA], September 2 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the
farthest Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be located 9.3 billion
light-years away from Earth.
Speaking about the
achievement to ANI on Tuesday, NASA
described this discovery as an effort that will further humankind's
understanding. "NASA congratulates the researchers on their exciting
discovery," NASA's Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou told ANI.
Chou further
added, "Science is a collaborative effort around the world, and
discoveries like these help further humankind's understanding of where we come
from, where are we going, and are we alone."
India's first
Multi-Wavelength Space Observatory "AstroSat" detected extreme-UV
light from a galaxy located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth. The galaxy
called AUDFs01 was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha
from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics(IUCAA) Pune.
India's
AstroSat/UVIT was able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise
in the UVIT detector is much less than one on the Hubble Space Telescope of
US-based NASA.
Director of IUCAA,
Dr Somak Ray Chaudhury, stated that the discovery offers a very important clue
to how the dark ages of the Universe ended and there was light in the Universe.
"We need to know when this started, but it has been very hard to find the
earliest sources of light," he said.
India's first
Space Observatory AstroSat, was launched by the Indian
Space Research Organization (ISRO) on September 28, 2015.
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