Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
X-Ray Astronomy - ROSAT Calendar 1991
Deutsche Version MPE HEG X-Ray Astronomy Wave ROSAT Gallery ROSAT Calendar Images 1991
The Large Magellanic Cloud in X-Ray Colours
The Large Magellanic Cloud, our nearest neighbour galaxy at a distance of about 170,000 light years, taken in X-ray colours by the ROSAT PSPC. The X-ray light stems from hot gas with temperatures between 500 thousand (red) and 10 million (blue) degrees.
ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1991
Images from the X-ray sky with the ROSAT telescope · All rights reserved:
© Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany.
The X-ray images are produced by the SASS/EXSAS software MPE, ESO-MIDAS.
The ROSAT project is managed by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany on behalf of the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF).
© X-Ray Group at MPE (group)
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