A NASA space telescope launched in 1992 to survey the sky in extreme ultraviolet light, a band of the spectrum too easily absorbed by Earth's atmosphere to observe from the ground and previously almost unexplored. It catalogued hundreds of extreme-ultraviolet sources, mostly hot white dwarf stars and active stellar coronae, before its mission ended in 2001.
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The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE or Explorer 67) was a NASA space telescope for ultraviolet astronomy.
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Launched on 7 June 1992 with instruments for ultraviolet (UV) radiation between wavelengths of 7 and 76 nm (equivalent to 0.016-0.163 keV in energy), the EUVE was the first satellite mission especially for the short-wave ultraviolet range.
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The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE or Explorer 67) was a NASA space telescope for ultraviolet astronomy.
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