Astrosat Picture of the Month #021

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for July 2019 is the Far UltraViolet image of the open cluster M67, showing its hotter younger stars. The BSS-White Dwarf pais, WOCS1007, is circled in red. (Picture Credits: N. Sindhu and collaborators)    “AstroSat Picture of the Month” is an initiative of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #020

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for June 2019 is the far-ultraviolet image of the Dwarf Galaxy IC2574, using ASTROSAT. The far-ultraviolet traces young massive stars in the galaxy. (Picture Credits: Chayan Mondal and collaborators)    “AstroSat Picture of the Month” is an initiative of the Public Outreach and Education Committee of the Astronomical Society of […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #019

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for May 2019 is the near-ultraviolet image of the Jellyfish Galaxy JO201, using ASTROSAT. This image shows young stars formed in the disk of the galaxy. The cross marks the active galactic nucleus (AGN) at the centre of the galaxy. The cavity-like structure around the central AGN is due […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #018

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for March 2019 is the Globular Cluster NGC 5466 and one of its stars NH 84. On the top left is the ultraviolet image of cluster, with its Blue Straggler Star NH 84 (circled in green) that lives in its outskirts. A zoomed-in image of the cluster is on […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #017

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for February 2019 is an Ultraviolet image of the globular cluster NGC 2808, with far-ultraviolet shown in blue and near-ultraviolet in yellow. Stars emitting in both are seen in white. The red and light-blue circles show the locations of two populations of faint red-horizontal branch stars identified using UVIT-AstroSat. […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #016

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for January 2019 shows the 97 minute long orbit of AstroSat around the Earth. This orbit is roughly equatorial (top right), inclined at around 6 degrees to it (top left). This results in each orbit being slightly displaced from the previous one (bottom). Picture credit: Leo Jackson John, Operation […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #015

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for December 2018 presents the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope itself. A schematic of the design of the UVIT is shown on the top left, and a photograph of the two UVIT telescopes is in the top right. An image of the fully assembled UVIT, containing both telescopes sitting snugly […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #014

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for November 2018 presents false colour image of the Globular Cluster NGC 288 in the ultraviolet taken by UVIT. The near-UV emission the stars are in yellow and the far-UV emission is in white. It is clear that the UVIT image shows only the hot stars as the cooler […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #013

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for October 2018 presents the false-color ultraviolet images of NGC6302 (Butterfly Nebula) using ASTROSAT. On the left is a cartoon showing the full extent of the nebula with far-ultraviolet represented in blue. The picture on the right shows the zoomed-in view of the brightest part of the butterfly shaped […]

Astrosat Picture of the Month #012

The AstroSat Picture of the Month for September 2018 is a photograph of AstroSat itself. The top panel has two photographs of the fully assembled AstroSat. The bottom panel is an artists’s conception of the observatory in space. Can you identify each of the five telescopes in the top panel photographs? Pic Credit: Top panel […]