On this day in 2003 - April 28th - NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) was launched.

GALEX, which operated until early 2012, was an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light. Its observations provided data about how galaxies, the basic structures of our Universe, evolve and change.


Mona Evans
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