Objectives
During its lifetime IUE greatly surpassed the expectations of the original science goals set to justify the mission:
- To obtain high-resolution spectra of stars of all spectral types to determine their physical characteristics
- To study gas streams in and around binary star system
- To observe faint stars, galaxies and quasars at low resolution, interpreting these spectra by reference to high-resolution spectra
- To observe the spectra of planets and comets
- To make repeated observations of objects with variable spectra
- To study the modification of starlight caused by interstellar dust and gas
Last Update: 1 September 2019