GALEX Recent News
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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.
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Feature Story: Revisiting Classic Stellar "Real Estate" with GALEX
Since its launch in April 2003, GALEX has glimpsed hundreds of thousands of galaxies -- revealing some of the hottest stellar neighborhoods in the cosmos. Here's a look back at some of the mission's most memorable views.
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Feature Story: Watching Galalaxies Grow Old Gracefully
In the early 1900s, Edwin Hubble made the startling discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone. It is just one of many galaxies, or "island universes," as Hubble dubbed them, swimming in the sea of space.
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Feature Story: Galactic Nature vs. Nurture
Just as psychologists have pondered the age-old question of "nature vs. nurture" in humans, astronomers are tackling a similar cosmic dilemma -- how much of a galaxy's development is due to innate characteristics, and how much is affected by the surrounding environment?