GALEX Recent News
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Press Release: NASA's Galex Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil have crowned it the largest-known spiral based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission.
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Feature Story: The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life
What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.
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Press Release: NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
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From NASA's ASK Magazine: GALEX: Managing the Unexpected
Explorers are among the lowest-cost missions flown by NASA, but they can pack a big scientific punch. Such is the case with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, a mission designed to map the history of star formation over 80 percent of the age of the universe.
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Press Release: Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Feature Story: Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.
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Image Release: Cygnus Loop Nebula
Wispy tendrils of hot dust and gas glow brightly in this ultraviolet image of the Cygnus Loop nebula, taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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Feature Story: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch.
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GALEX Announcement: GALEXFest Conference at Huntington Library, Sep. 4-7, 2012
Astronomers will gather at the historic Huntington Library and Gardens in Pasadena, California on September 4th through 7th, 2012 to celebrate over nine years of UV exploration with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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From Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks"
Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will mark a moment of both destruction and creation.
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Press Release: NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy
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 accelerating speeds.
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Feature Story: Ultraviolet Spotlight on Plump Stars in Tiny Galaxies
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.
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Feature Story: NASA Telescope Ferrets Out Planet-Hunting Targets
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 our solar system, because nearby, hard-to-see stars could very well be home to the easiest-to-see alien planets.
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Feature Story: 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.
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Feature Story: Astronomers Discover Star-Studded Galaxy Tail
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered a galaxy tail studded with bright knots of new stars. The tail, which was created as the galaxy IC 3418 plunged into the neighboring Virgo cluster of galaxies, offers new insight into how stars form.
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GALEX Status Update: Space Telescope Moves on with One Detector
Mission engineers and scientists with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space telescope that has been beaming back pictures of galaxies for three times its design lifespan, are no longer planning science observations around one of its two ultraviolet detectors.
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer International Year of Astronomy Video
Dr Mark Seibert and Dr James Don Neill explain what GALEX does in this International Year of Astronomy Video
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Feature Story: Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near Us
Imagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard.
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GALEX Status Update: December 2, 2009
Engineers and scientists have several laboratory activities underway that are expected to aid in recovering the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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GALEX Status Update: August 21, 2009
Engineers and scientists are continuing to work on the recovery of the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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Press Release: Galaxies Demand a Stellar Recount
For decades, astronomers have gone about their business of studying the cosmos with the assumption that stars of certain sizes form in certain quantities
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GALEX Status Update: July 9, 2009
Engineers and scientists are continuing the recovery procedure for the far-ultraviolet instrument on NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. On May 29, the instrument experienced an overcurrent condition and shut down.
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GALEX Status Update: June 9, 2009
On May 29, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's far-ultraviolet instrument reported an overcurrent condition and shut down. The project reviewed data from the incident and confirmed it had the same characteristics as three previous incidents occurring in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Feature Story: NASA's Galaxy-Exploring Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
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 in space.
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Image Release: The Extended Region Around the Planetary Nebula NGC 3242
This new image of the 'Ghost of Jupiter' is being released as part of the 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' event for the International Year of Astronomy.
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Press Release: NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes'
A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a 24-hour webcast that is part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
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From National Geographic: Death of a Star
GALEX captures a dying star hurtling through space, leaving a trail of glowing debris more than 13 light-years long.
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Press Release: New Recipe for Dwarf Galaxies: Start with Leftover Gas
There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe.
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Press Release: 'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image
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.
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GALEX Status Update: Jul. 1, 2008
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer resumed nominal operations today, completing recovery from its June 13 shutdown, caused by an anomaly with the satellite's instrument processor.
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From University of Oxford: Ultraviolet Gives View Inside Real ‘Death Star’
Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star giving vital evidence of how stars turn into supernovae.
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Feature Story: Galaxy Evolution Explorer Celebrates Five Years in Space
Since its launch five years ago, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has photographed hundreds of millions of galaxies in ultraviolet light. M106 is one of those galaxies, and from 22 million light years away, it strikes a pose in blue and gold for this new commemorative portrait.
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Press Release: Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness
A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center.