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A stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2336 taken by the Astrosat space telescope using ultraviolet light.

AstroSat: India’s Special Space Eye

AstroSat is India’s very first special space telescope. It flies high above Earth to look at stars, planets, and other amazing things in space. AstroSat can see different kinds of light, like the light we see with our eyes and special light called X-rays.

AstroSat was launched into space on September 28, 2015, from India. A big rocket called PSLV-XL carried it up. The people who made AstroSat work very hard to build it. They are part of the Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO for short.

AstroSat has many special tools to study space. These tools help scientists learn new things about stars, galaxies, and faraway space objects. Because AstroSat worked so well, scientists are planning to launch a second one called AstroSat-2. This will help us learn even more about the wonderful universe!

Images

A stunning view of a globular cluster taken by the AstroSat in 2017, showing thousands of stars packed together in a spherical shape.
A stunning view of stars in the NGC 288 cluster captured by a space telescope.
A detailed image of the planet Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, showing its surface features and craters.
A stunning view of Earth rising over the lunar horizon, as seen by the Apollo 8 astronauts during their historic journey to the Moon.
India's first satellite, Aryabhata, used for studying stars and space weather.

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