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- initialism Acronym of Galaxy Evolution Explorer. (A spacecraft of
NASA )
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The material on offer includes some nice Hubble snaps, Chandra X-ray, GALEX Ultraviolet and Spitzer infrared showcases, and a historical layer showing how past generations viewed the vast majesty of space.
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Hubble: red, yellow-green, and blue; Spitzer: orange; GALEX: purple
Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together | Universe Today 2010
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Now combined results from the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer, Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX, and Swift show that there are 'living galaxy fossils' in our own backyard!
Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together | Universe Today 2010
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The analysis was bolstered by infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and ultraviolet observations from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX and NASA's Swift satellite.
Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together | Universe Today 2010
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NGC 2623 is so bright in the infrared that it belongs to the group of very luminous infrared galaxies (LIRG) and has been extensively studied as the part of the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) project that combines data from Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX).
New Hubble Release: Dramatic Galaxy Collision | Universe Today 2009
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I'll guess its the BCD I Zw 18 taken in the UV band by either SWIFT or GALEX
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GALEX Showcase - the Galaxy Evolution Explorer GALEX is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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More than half a dozen ground-based telescopes, as well as five satellites (the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer infrared observatory, XMM and Chandra for X-rays, and GALEX for the ultraviolet), are joined in the effort.
COSMOS Reveals the Cosmos Sean 2007
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An unexpected treat on a star first described more than 400 years ago have spied by the NASA space telescope Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) as part of a survey of the ultraviolet spectrum of the sky that the telescope began in 2003 and is expected to complete later this year.
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Orbital has provided the spacecraft for six of the last seven Small Explorer missions, including the operational RHESSI, GALEX, AIM and IBEX spacecraft, as well as the NuSTAR and GEMS spacecraft scheduled for launch in 2012 and 2015, respectively.
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