WASHINGTON DC: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (POT) has congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the most distant Star galaxies in the universe estimated to be 9.3 billion light-years distant from land.
Speaking about the achievement to ANI on Tuesday, NASA described this discovery as an effort that will promote understanding of humanity. “NASA congratulates the researchers on their exciting discovery,” NASA Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou told ANI.
Chou further added: “Science is a collaborative effort around the world, and discoveries like these help humanity better understand where we came from, where we are going and we are alone.”
India’s first multi-wavelength space observatory, “AstroSat”, detected extreme ultraviolet 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 Interuniversity Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in 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 in the hubble space telescope from NASA based in the USA.
IUCAA Director Dr. Somak Ray Chaudhury stated that the discovery offers a very important clue as 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 difficult to find the first sources of light,” he said.
India’s first AstroSat Space Observatory was launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on September 28, 2015.
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