Dr. Trombka (gamma-ray background investigator)

1973-01-08 / High galactic latitudes (North Galactic Pole and South Galactic Pole) / 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