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S. Bowyer (1)
1) Center for EUV Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, University
of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
From the beginnings of NASA in the late 1950's, the promise was offered that the entire electromagnetic spectrum would be explored providing new insights into stars, the Galaxy, and the universe. There was one exception to this expansive view; the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, ranging from approximately 90 to 900 A, would be forever hidden from our view, because of severe absorption due to the interstellar medium. Only in the early 1990s was this overall appraisal shown to be incorrect with over 400 sources of extreme ultraviolet radiation detected with the English Wide-field camera on the German ROSAT satellite, (Pye et al. 1995) and more than 700 sources detected with NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE; Bowyer et al. 1995). In the following, I would like to briefly comment on a few of the results obtained with EUVE.
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