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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)

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*Awesome!  It was launched in April 2003...somehow I missed that?    Can't win 'em all, I guess. 

Here's a fantastic photo of the Andromeda Galaxy (our nearest galactic neighbor) as taken by GALEX:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031222.html

By the way, we (the Milky Way Galaxy) are "scheduled" to crash and merge with the Andromeda Galaxy in the distant future.  Gravitational pull/attraction indeed, Mr. Barrett.

Also, Andromeda is easy to see with even a small telescope; I've looked at it many times with my little Astroscan 2001.

The web site devoted to GALEX includes quite a few sublinks for additional information about it.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)