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How was ultraviolet astronomy advanced through the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) satellites?

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NASA's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) satellites, the first of which was launched in 1966, returned UV data about stars and interstellar gas and dust and the first observations of the powerful UV radiation emitted by certain galaxies.

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