The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have congratulated Indian astronomers on the discovery of one of the farthest Star galaxies in the universe which is estimated to be located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth.
The move comes a day after the Indian astronomers discovered the Star galaxy. Lauding the discovery as an effort to further enable humankind’s understanding, NASA’s Public Affairs Officer Felicia Chou said, “NASA congratulates the researchers on their exciting discovery. Science is a collaborative effort around the world, and discoveries like these help further humankind’s understanding of where we come from, where are we going, and are we alone.”
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune, used India’s first Multi-Wavelength Space Observatory called ‘AstroSat’ that detected extreme-UV light from a galaxy located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth and called it “AUDFs01”.