These goals were achieved thanks to the
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) satellite, launched on June 7, 1992.
NASA postponed a Space Shuttle mission to avoid endangering the astronauts, and flight controllers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and the
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer in the direction opposite the radiant in Perseus to protect their sensitive instruments.
Recently, Linsky, Wood, and Nikolai Piskounov of the University of Colorado combined ultraviolet observations taken by Hubble and the
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer spacecraft to construct a new, three-dimensional map of the Local Fluff.
The spectrometers detect ultraviolet radiation at a key set of wavelengths-shorter than those detected by the Hubble Space Telescope but longer than those recorded by the
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite.
She used data from seven spacecraft -- including the Hubble Space Telescope, the
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, and Voyagers 1 and 2 -- orbiting throughout the solar system.