Indian Satellite ‘AstroSat’ Detects UV Light From Galaxy 9 Billion Light Years Away

India’s first multi-wavelength satellite, AstroSat, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy, called AUDFs01.
This galaxy is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, in the Hubble Extreme Deep field.
The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha, associate professor of astronomy at the Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).
AstroSat is India’s first multi-wavelength satellite, which has five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes working in tandem.