Astrosat

Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on the AstroSat looks at the heart of Jellyfish galaxy

There is a cavity at the centre of this galaxy as there has been no formation of new stars in the past 100 billion years.

AstroSat space observatory discovers new group of stars in globular cluster

Globular clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars, moving as one unit.

AstroSat reveals how hot stars residing in Milky Way's galaxy clusters evolve

Astrosat's UV capabilities allow hot stars to be seen individually, better estimate mass & temperature.

AstroSat data from 'Butterfly Nebulae' enables new discoveries about dying stars

The find could help solve an elusive astrophysics problem for the 'missing mass in planetary nebulae'.

AstroSat's first images capture a supernova that's over 10,000 light-years away

Tycho supernova, the remnant of which Astrosat captured, holds a special place in our history.

ISRO's space telescope AstroSat measures X-ray polarisation of the Crab pulsar in the Taurus constellation

The landmark measurement by the satellite's CZT (Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride) imaging instrument challenges theories of high energy X-ray emission from pulsars.

Indian astronomers obtain the ‘most precise hard X-ray polarization measurements of the Crab pulsar so far’

Crab pulsar contains 1.4 solar masses and rotates thirty times every second emitting a pulse of radiation in almost all wavelengths every 33 milliseconds.

More than 40 scientists from 13 Indian institutions played a role in the observation of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

The Indian scientists were part of the team of 1,200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide.

Scientists announce first direct observation of gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars

Near-simultaneous detection of the gravitational waves and gamma rays indicate that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light.

Three ISRO satellites celebrated their birth anniversaries in the last week of September

The Mars Orbiter Mission, The ScatSat-1 weather satellite and the AstroSat astronomical instrument all celebrated their birthdays.