GALEX, NASA's galaxy-finding space telescope, retired this week. We look back at some of its most beautiful and momentous discoveries. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Along the way, the orbiting system, known as GALEX, helped scientists study how galaxies and stars are born, and how they change over time. Since its launch in the spring of 2003, GALEX ...

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) NASA has officially shut down the 10-year-old space telescope Galexy Evolution Explorer, or Galex. The space agency had handed over control of ...

One of NASA’s prize workhorses, the spacecraft Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, was decommissioned Friday after 10 years of scanning the universe in ultraviolet light. “It had a long run ...

Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile, and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral based on archival data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.

The space agency decommissioned its Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft, or GALEX, on Friday afternoon (June 28), NASA officials said. During its 10-year career, GALEX peered at hundreds of ...

In the 18 months since its launch by NASA, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) ultraviolet space telescope has discovered a wealth of objects in the sky, from flaring dwarf stars to space debris ...

In 2015, Reddit user Tom Buckley took the GALEX image and added it into a photograph of the moon that had been taken by Flickr user Stephen Rahn. Buckley said that his composite showed ...

This series of images shows the star flaring in UV light. This image, from the far-ultraviolet detector on GALEX, was processed to enhance the appearance of the diffuse emissions from the shell ...

Galex went undefeated against girls competition (17-0) and finished with an overall record of 33-3. The 152-pound senior won the Div. 2 State, All-State and New England title. A two-time State and ...

A team of scientists reached this conclusion by analyzing data collected by the now-decommissioned NASA mission Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). Launched in April 2003, GALEX scanned the ...