NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
Photo 1 of 11
The Galaxy Next Door
At approximately 2.5 million
light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our Milky Way's largest
galactic neighbor. The entire galaxy spans 260,000 light-years across --
a distance so large, it took 11 different Galaxy Evolution Explorer
image segments stitched together to produce this view of the galaxy next
door. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON -- 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. In a
first-of-a-kind move for NASA, a Space Act Agreement was signed May 14
so the university soon can resume spacecraft operations and data
management for the mission using private funds."NASA sees this as an opportunity to allow the public to continue reaping the benefits from this space asset that NASA developed using federal funding," said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "This is an excellent example of a public/private partnership that will help further astronomy in the United States."
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer spent about nine years as a NASA mission, probing the sky with its sharp ultraviolet eyes and cataloguing hundreds of millions of galaxies spanning 10 billion years of cosmic time.
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