SETI public: I hope this GALEX film doesn't get turned into a UFO film

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Check the second film from GALEX from this article. It looks like the
satellites are doing a U-turn in orbit. I just want to nip in the bud any
claims that NASA has captured another UFO via imagery and are suppressing
the data, etc.

GALEX PROVIDES ULTRAVIOLET GOODIES

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite inadvertently picked up an
assortment of astronomical goodies in our solar neighborhood while
surveying distant galaxies in ultraviolet light. The satellite's large
field of view, 1.5 degrees, catches many nearby objects that unexpectedly
flare and glow in this high-energy part of the spectrum. Barry Welsh
(University of California, Berkeley) described some of the interesting
phenomena that turned up in GALEX's "contaminated" observations, including
an exciting flare in a red-dwarf star whose brightness increased more than
10,000 times.

The unique capabilities of the GALEX cameras allow astronomers to make
stellar observations on a much faster timescale than normal. Its photon
counting camera can take a picture about once every 0.05 second...

>http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1523_1.asp

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