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Ultraviolet Light
Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than visible light but longer than X-rays. Ultraviolet observations are crucial for studying hot astronomical objects like accretion disks around black holes.
Source: science.nasa.gov
APODs including "Ultraviolet Light"
M27: Not a Comet
09/06/2017
JWST: Ghosts and Mirrors
18/03/2017
The Rosette Nebula
14/02/2017
The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble
08/02/2017
IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
09/12/2016
A Huge Solar Filament Erupts
Video
31/07/2016
Aurorae on Jupiter
11/07/2016
IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
04/07/2016
Sputnik Planum vs. Krun Macula
18/06/2016
A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO
Video
11/05/2016
Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
22/03/2016
A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
Video
06/03/2016
Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
10/01/2016
High Energy Andromeda
07/01/2016
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
27/12/2015
M27: Not a Comet
20/08/2015
Ultraviolet Rings of M31
24/07/2015
The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty
11/06/2015
The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy
21/01/2015
Hubble 25th Anniversary: Pillars of Creation
07/01/2015
The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
29/12/2014
Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun
22/11/2014
Sunspot Group AR 2192 Crackles
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Video
22/10/2014
The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble
01/10/2014
Persistent Saturnian Auroras
22/06/2014
Planetary Nebula Abell 36
30/05/2014
The Sun Rotating
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Video
12/03/2014
Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
26/01/2014
An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse
11/11/2013
Cometary Globules
12/10/2013