GALEX sported a 50-centimeter primary aperture, in a Richey-Chretien f/6 configuration. The camera could see wavelengths between 135 and 280nm, well below the lower bound of visible light, which ...

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.

NASA's earth-orbiting GALEX was shut down Friday, meaning that the spacecraft will join a long line of space probes sacrificed to the universe.

GALEX was shut down at 3:09 p.m. ET Friday, when a decommission signal was sent to the orbiting craft, according to NASA, which has also published a photo gallery of compelling images from the ...

On June 28, NASA flipped the switch for GALEX, shutting down the highly successful astronomical observatory.This was not unexpected; the mission had a fantastic 10-year run, and given NASA’s ...

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 ...

We took a bit of time off on Friday. 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 ...

GALEX picks up large flares from stars every 2 months or so, but they usually result in brightness increases of 100 times. The 2004 superflare was more than 100 times brighter than these — and ...

A black hole has been seen devouring a star in the best detail yet, thanks to observations made over the course of two years by NASA’s GALEX spacecraft. Such observations will help astronomers ...

See photos of galaxies across the universe from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, space telescope, which launched in 2003 and shut down in 2013.

But Appleton says the latest GALEX observations show a faint disk that extends to twice the ring’s diameter. This makes the Cartwheel about 2.5 times the size of our galaxy.

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 "Andromeda ...