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ESA has released the entire database of the International Ultraviolet
Explorer for unrestricted access to scientists around the world. The
IUE archive contains more than 110,000 spectra from observations that
in most cases cannot be replicated. The archive will be available
through a special distribution system, INES (IUE Newly Extracted
Spectra), either through 17 non-ESA national hosts or directly from
the Laboratory for Space Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics in
Villafranca, Spain. The IUE, launched 1978 as a cooperative venture by
ESA, NASA and the U.K., was the first astronomical satellite to
operate in the ultraviolet wavelength. Before it was switched off in
September 1996 -14 years later than planned- it has chalked up a
number of major findings, including the discovery of the auroras of
Jupiter and the halo in the Milky Way, and measurements of a black
hole in the core of an active outlying galaxy.
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