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  • 'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image

    10.31.08 - 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.

  • Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space

    04.28.08 - Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light.

  • Galaxy Evolution Explorer Spies Band of Stars

    06.20.07 - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer's ultraviolet eyes have captured a globular star cluster, called NGC 362, in our own Milky Way galaxy.

  • Amazing Andromeda Galaxy

    10.03.06 - The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

  • Local Galactic Treasures  →

    01.09.06 - Mined from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Survey of Nearby Galaxies data, these cosmic gems were collected with the telescope's sensitive ultraviolet instruments.