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On this day in 1999 – June 24th – NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) was launched.

Operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, for eight years it detected light in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is mostly unobservable by other telescopes.

Mona Evans
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