NASA’s 2030 UVEX Mission to Explore the Ultraviolet Universe Written 22 February 2024
This false-color composite image shows the Cartwheel galaxy as seen by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. | Credit: NASA
SPACE reports that NASA's UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) spacecraft “will launch in 2030 to conduct an all-sky survey in ultraviolet light to bring new understanding of how stars and galaxies evolve.” The report notes that the space observatory will be designed with a capability of quickly pointing toward ultraviolet light sources, and “will also include an ultraviolet spectrograph for studying massive stars and stellar explosions.”
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