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High galactic latitudes (North Galactic Pole and South Galactic Pole)

At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.

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1973-01-08 / unresolved

At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.

Unexpected UV spectrum at high galactic latitudes resembling the spectrum of a hot star, with no hot stars within the field of view