Project News

Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness

GALEX • News Release • April 16th, 2008

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.

Revisiting Classic Stellar "Real Estate" with GALEX

GALEX • News Release • February 21st, 2008

As the most sensitive ultraviolet telescope ever launched, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) scouts galaxies, or "stellar communities," over 10 billion years of cosmic history. Since its launch in April 2003, GALEX has glimpsed hundreds of thousands of galaxies -- revealing some of the...

Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness

GALEX • April 16th, 2008

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...

Revisiting Classic Stellar "Real Estate" with GALEX

GALEX • February 21st, 2008

As the most sensitive ultraviolet telescope ever launched, NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) scouts galaxies, or "stellar communities," over 10 billion years of cosmic...