{"id":258,"date":"2015-07-17T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2025-02-28T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:04:44","slug":"galex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/instrumentation\/space-missions\/galex\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/files\/2015\/07\/galex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-full\" style=\"border-style: solid;border-width: 5px 0px 0px 0px;border-float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/files\/2015\/07\/galex.jpg\" alt=\"galex\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/files\/2015\/07\/galex.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/files\/2015\/07\/galex-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galaxy Evolution Explorer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) was an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. A Pegasus rocket launched GALEX into orbit at 8 a.m. EDT on April 28th, 2003. Although originally planned as a 29-month mission, the NASA Senior Review Panel in 2006 recommended that the mission lifetime be extended.<\/p>\n<p>GALEX\u2019s observations informed scientists about how galaxies, the basic structures of our Universe, evolve and change. Additionally, GALEX observations investigated the causes of star formation during a period when most of the stars and elements we see today had their origins.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the California Institute of Technology, GALEX conducted several first-of-a-kind sky surveys, including an extra-galactic (beyond our galaxy) ultraviolet all-sky survey. During its mission GALEX produced the first comprehensive map of a Universe of galaxies under construction, bringing us closer to understanding how galaxies like our own Milky Way were formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) was an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. A Pegasus rocket launched GALEX into orbit at 8 a.m. EDT on April 28th, 2003. Although originally planned as a 29-month mission, the NASA Senior Review Panel in 2006 recommended that the mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/idg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}