News tagged with galaxy evolution explorer
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A pinwheel in many colors
(Phys.org) -- This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows ...
May 25, 2012 |
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NASA lends ultraviolet space telescope to Caltech
(Phys.org) -- Caltech has taken over operation from NASA of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a space telescope that for the last nine years has been surveying the cosmos in ultraviolet light. In this ...
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May 17, 2012 |
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Cosmic 'leaf blower' robs galaxy of star-making fuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution explorer in standby mode
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft ...
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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NASA to support IU astronomer's quest to develop largest-ever star formation database
(PhysOrg.com) -- Samir Salim has a lot of space to fit into a new NASA-funded database; about 11 million galaxies of it would be a ballpark estimate based on the number of galaxies for which distances can be estimated to ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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A cosmic exclamation point
(PhysOrg.com) -- VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North ...
Aug 12, 2011 |
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer finds dark energy repulsive
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 a ...
May 20, 2011 |
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Ultraviolet spotlight on plump stars in tiny galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite ferrets out planet-hunting targets
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Better understanding of carbon in comets with PSI research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a comet as a far-flung laboratory, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has shown that the ionization lifetime of carbon is much shorter than what is currently used in calculations by comet scientists. ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Giant 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. Somehow these "over-the-hill galaxies" have been infused with fresh ...
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities. Like grocery stores selling melons ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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