Revisiting Classic Stellar "Real Estate" with GALEX
As the most sensitive ultraviolet telescope ever launched, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) scouts galaxies, or "stellar communities," over 10 billion years of cosmic history. Since its launch...
View ArticleStellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness
A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's...
View ArticleGalaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light. M106 is one of those galaxies, and from 22 million light...
View Article'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies.
View ArticleNew Recipe for Dwarf Galaxies: Start with Leftover Gas
There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe.
View ArticleAround the World in 80 Telescopes
Galex is participating in the 24-hour live webcast "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" as part of the 100 Hours of Astronomy event in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy celebrating...
View ArticleDeath of a Star
GALEX captures a dying star hurtling through space, leaving a trail of glowing debris more than 13 light-years long.
View ArticleNASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'
A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a...
View ArticleThe Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242
This new image of the 'Ghost of Jupiter' is being released as part of the 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' event for the International Year of Astronomy.
View ArticleNASA's Galaxy-Exploring Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission marks its sixth anniversary studying galaxies beyond our Milky Way through its sensitive ultraviolet telescope, the only such far-ultraviolet detector in space.
View ArticleGALEX Status Update: June 9, 2009
On May 29, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's far-ultraviolet instrument reported an overcurrent condition and shut down. The project reviewed data from the incident and confirmed it had the same...
View ArticleGALEX Status Update: July 9, 2009
Engineers and scientists are continuing the recovery procedure for the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. On May 29, the instrument experienced an overcurrent condition and...
View ArticleGalaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities
View ArticleGALEX Status Update: August 21, 2009
Engineers and scientists are continuing to work on the recovery of the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
View ArticleGALEX Status Update: December 2, 2009
Engineers and scientists have several laboratory activities underway that are expected to aid in recovering the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
View ArticleJurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near Us
Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard.
View ArticleGalaxy Evolution Explorer International Year of Astronomy Video
Dr Mark Seibert and Dr James Don Neill explain what GALEX does in this International Year of Astronomy Video
View ArticleGALEX Status Update: Space Telescope Moves on with One Detector
Mission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space telescope that has been beaming back pictures of galaxies for three times its design lifespan, are no longer planning...
View ArticleAstronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the neighboring Virgo cluster of...
View ArticleGiant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies
Astronomers have found mysterious, giant loops of ultraviolet light in aged, massive galaxies, which seem to have a second lease on life.
View ArticleNASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets
Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar...
View ArticleUltraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies
Astronomers using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer may be closer to knowing why some of the most massive stellar explosions ever observed occur in the tiniest of galaxies.
View ArticleNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at...
View ArticleThe Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks"
Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will mark a moment of both destruction and creation.
View ArticleNASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch.
View ArticleCygnus Loop Nebula
Wispy tendrils of hot dust and gas glow brightly in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop nebula, taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
View ArticleCosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.
View ArticleBlack Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
View ArticleGALEX: Managing the Unexpected
Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch. Such is the case with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, a mission designed to map the...
View ArticleNASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
View ArticleThe Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life
What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.
View ArticleNASA's Galex Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil have crowned it the...
View ArticleGravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
The light of a red star is warped and magnified by its dead-star companion, as detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
View ArticleDiscovery of a Blue Supergiant Star Born in the Wild
A duo of astronomers, Dr. Youichi Ohyama (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica or ASIAA, Taiwan) and Dr. Ananda Hota (UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in the Basic Sciences or CBS,...
View ArticleNASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft
NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies across 10...
View ArticleSlow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe
What makes one rose bush blossom with flowers, while another remains barren? Astronomers ask a similar question of galaxies.
View ArticleAstronomers Upgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs
A new report identifies top-of-the-line tools for studying the fabric of space.
View ArticleFunky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained
Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance. Researchers using data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)...
View ArticleFrankenstein Galaxy Surprises Astronomers
The galaxy UGC 1382 has been revealed to be far larger and stranger than previously thought. Astronomers relied on a combination of ground-based and space telescopes to uncover the true nature of this...
View ArticleFlares May Threaten Planet Habitability Near Red Dwarfs
Data from the GALEX spacecraft suggest that planets around cool dwarf stars may be subjected to intense flares.
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