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This image is from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an observation of the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31....
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this ultraviolet color image of the galaxy NGC5474 on June 7, 2003. NGC5474 is...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of a small area of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies....
This ultraviolet color image of the galaxy UGC10445 was taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7 and June...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer took this ultraviolet color image of the galaxy NGC5962 on June 7, 2003. This spiral...
This is an ultraviolet color image of the galaxy NGC5398 taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7, 2003....
Evidence from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer supports the long-held notion that many galaxies begin life as smaller...
This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 83 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7, 2003. Located 15...
Located 10 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor, the Silver Dollar galaxy, or NGC 253, is...
This image of the active galaxy Centaurus A was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 7, 2003. The...
This image of the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 55 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on September 14, 2003,...
The galaxy UGC 1382 has been revealed to be far larger and stranger than previously thought. Astronomers relied on a...
This image of the dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 247 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer on October 13, 2003, in a...
These postage-stamp images taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer are helping to solve a mystery -- why do the...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows the interacting pair NGC 1097, a barred spiral...
This artist's conception illustrates the decline in our universe's "birth-rate" over time. When the universe was...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the farthest spectroscopically confirmed galaxy observed to date (inset)....
This image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer in a single orbit exposure of...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory combined data making this...
The unique ultraviolet vision of NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer revealed, for the first time, dwarf galaxies forming...
This image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 4565, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies not...
This ultraviolet image left and visual image right from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the irregular dwarf...
The many personalities of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image...
This three-color image of galaxy M101 was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer on June 20, 2003. The far...