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What is the name of India's space observatory that was launched to study celestial phenomena such as black holes?

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AstroSat

AstroSat, launched by ISRO in September 2015, is India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory.

It studies celestial sources such as black holes, neutron stars and galaxies in X-ray, ultraviolet and visible light. Mangalyaan went to Mars, Chandrayaan-2 to the Moon, and RISAT-1 is a radar imaging satellite.

Hence, AstroSat.

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