Few people know about the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a earth-orbit satellite launched on April 28th, 2003 by an air-dropped Pegasus rocket. It takes images in ultraviolet light, and its mission is to explore how galaxies evolve. The picture at right is of NGC 300, and it was made by combining an optical wavelength photo taken from Earth with the UV image taken by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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