ISRO gets big success, Astrosat detects more than 600 gamma-ray bursts
ISRO Astrosat: India's Astrosat space telescope has detected more than 600 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The 600th GRB was detected by Astrosat's Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) detector on November 22. CZTI has since detected three more such events, with the latest GRB detected on Monday.
India's Astrosat space telescope has detected more than 600 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The 600th GRB was detected by Astrosat's Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) detector on November 22. CZTI has since detected three more such events, with the latest GRB detected on Monday.
Varun Bhalerao, Associate Professor, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, said, we are proud of what Astrosat has achieved. Gaurav Varatkar, a PhD student at IIT Bombay who led the GRB study, said GRBs, called mini-big-bangs, are explosions in the universe that produce more energy than the Sun emits in its entire lifetime. Emits in just a few seconds.
Let us tell you that the operational period of Astrosat, launched in 2015 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), was set for five years, but it is still active. It is India's first multi-wavelength space observatory, equipped with payloads to simultaneously observe celestial bodies in different wavelengths from ultraviolet to X-ray.
