Swift observatory is in a 95.74 minute orbit around earth. Its NASA's Multi-wavelength space telescope.
1. Burst Alert Telescope (BAT)
2. X-Ray Telescope (XRT)
3. Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT)
Swift detects ~100 GRBs per year.
This year in January, Swift was renamed as Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to honour Cornelis A. Neil Gehrels, an astrophysicist who left us on February 6, 2017.
It was the first image captured by the UVOT instrument - the pinwheel galaxy in UV and visible light.
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| NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet |
It was launched on 20th November, 2004. Swift is named after a small bird. One of its mission is to detect Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows in X-ray and visible light. For this, there are three instruments on board Swift -
1. Burst Alert Telescope (BAT)
2. X-Ray Telescope (XRT)
3. Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT)
Swift detects ~100 GRBs per year.
This year in January, Swift was renamed as Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to honour Cornelis A. Neil Gehrels, an astrophysicist who left us on February 6, 2017.
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| swift.gsfc.nasa.gov |
It was the first image captured by the UVOT instrument - the pinwheel galaxy in UV and visible light.
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