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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"
NGC 6302: Big, Bright, Bug Nebula
29/04/2007
Planetary Nebula NGC 2440
15/02/2007
The Rosette Nebula
14/02/2007
Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
06/02/2007
The Ghostly Tail of Comet SWAN
06/11/2006
IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
20/10/2006
An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO
07/08/2006
M27: Not A Comet
03/08/2006
Venus Express Arrives at Venus
17/07/2006
Dark Sun Sizzling
10/07/2006
Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
11/06/2006
NGC 6164: A Bipolar Emission Nebula
06/06/2006
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
26/03/2006
The Andromeda Galaxy in Infrared
20/10/2005
IC 1396 H-Alpha Close-Up
30/09/2005
Heating Coronal Loops
14/08/2005
Persistent Saturnian Auroras
22/02/2005
Saturnian Aurora
19/02/2005
The Rosette Nebula
14/02/2005
M81 and M82: GALEX Full Field
30/12/2004
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
28/11/2004
Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
10/10/2004
The Iron Sun
25/09/2004
Cassini Images Saturn's A Ring
12/07/2004
Solstice Celebration
20/06/2004
NGC 6302: Big, Bright, Bug Nebula
05/05/2004
M27: Not A Comet
24/04/2004
The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX
22/12/2003
Double Eruptive Prominences
18/04/2003
Coronal Holes on the Sun
18/03/2003