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GALEX Mission Comes to an End
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 23:29
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The GALEX spacecraft before its launch in 2003. Credit: JPL
A mission which helped map the ultraviolet sky and worked to confirm the nature of dark energy is coming to an end. Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, was placed in standby mode today after nearly nine years of service and will be decommissioned later this year. With data from the mission, scientists were able to catalog millions of galaxies spanning 10 billion years of cosmic time.
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